Telegram Allegedly Sharing User Data For The First Time

Telegram, which has been famous for its privacy features and policies, came up with an interesting claim. Explaining that it has not previously provided any data to the states, some of Telegram submitting user data to German authorities claimed. It was stated that the said data belonged to the suspects involved in terrorism and child abuse crimes.

The greatest significance of the claim in question is that Telegram has so far not allowed any government under any circumstances –even if persons are involved in crimes– it did not present data. If the claim is true, this will be the first known data submission case for Telegram as well. Some details about the claim are still up in the air.

Telegram was constantly making efforts to distance itself from the authorities:

In particular, the data of the people involved in the aforementioned crimes can be easily presented in different messaging applications in line with the requests of the authorities. However, since the Telegram team is very strict on this issue, it has also been used in the past to escape the sanctions of the countries on this issue. He moved his headquarters to different countries.

Although Telegram’s current headquarters is seen as Dubai, the company’s servers London, Singapore and San Francisco located in various cities and regions such as This actually makes it even more difficult for authorities to access the data. Telegram has not shared any explanation about the current claim so far.