Pavel Durov can’t be held legally responsible for what happens in Telegram users’ E2EE direct chats, EFF’s @evacide told DW News. And arresting a CEO for content moderation practices could threaten millions of users’ free speech and privacy rights. https://youtu.be/NlHGfQyL3BM?feature=shared
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@eff only secret chats are E2EE, normal direct chats are client-server encryption only. But as far as I remember Telegram's servers have those chats encrypted and operators do not have the decryption keys available to them, so they can't just go looking at people's private chats.
@danie10 @eff in Telegram group chats, channels, etc. are not encrypted. Direct messages neither, unless you specifically create a "secret chat" (few people do that).
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Wired explains it here at https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-encryption-end-to-end-features/. It's true to say it is not encrypted at all. It us not E2EE yes, and it can be decrypted by Telegram on the server side.
@eff
Switched to Telegram? You need to know this about its encryption

Telegram encrypts all your chats but doesn’t offer the same level of protection as Signal or WhatsApp by default

WIRED