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Thank you for the translation. The report is wrong about Telegram's privacy statement though. The current privacy statement at https://telegram.org/privacy http

by sheviz 3y ago

Thank you for the translation. The report is wrong about Telegram's privacy statement though. The current privacy statement at https://telegram.org/privacy https://telegram.org/privacy says "If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities." However, in the next sentence it also claims "So far, this has never happened", which is clearly wrong and has been since at least 2022 (see my remark on the situation in Germany above). It then goes on to say "When it does [happen], we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: https://t.me/transparency https://t.me/transparency." Maybe someone using Telegram could check out whether they published at least the German cases there, since those happened over a year ago.

viddi 3y ago
I can only seem to get the report for Germany. Here is the bot's reply (formatting omitted): >No transparency report is available for your region. If any IP addresses or phone numbers are shared in accordance with 8.3 of the Privacy Policy[0], we will publish a transparency report within 6 months of it happening and will continue publishing semiannual reports. >Note: for a court decision to be relevant, it must come from a country with a high enough democracy index[1] to be considered a democracy. Only the IP address and the phone number may be shared. [0] https://telegram.org/privacy#8-3-law-enforcement-authorities https://telegram.org/privacy#8-3-law-enforcement-authorities [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Gys 3y ago
If I follow https://t.me/transparency https://t.me/transparency it opens in the app and seems to only allow me to request a report for my own 'region'. Which report is empty. I am not able to change that to another 'region', like 'Germany'. Why not? Seems very evasive.

by sheviz 3y ago

viddi 3y ago

I can only seem to get the report for Germany. Here is the bot's reply (formatting omitted): >No transparency report is available for your region. If any IP addresses or phone numbers are shared in accordance with 8.3 of the Privacy Policy[0], we will publish a transparency report within 6 months of it happening and will continue publishing semiannual reports. >Note: for a court decision to be relevant, it must come from a country with a high enough democracy index[1] to be considered a democracy. Only the IP address and the phone number may be shared. [0] https://telegram.org/privacy#8-3-law-enforcement-authorities https://telegram.org/privacy#8-3-law-enforcement-authorities [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

Gys 3y ago

If I follow https://t.me/transparency https://t.me/transparency it opens in the app and seems to only allow me to request a report for my own 'region'. Which report is empty. I am not able to change that to another 'region', like 'Germany'. Why not? Seems very evasive.