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The unfortunate reality is that moving to Telegram is moving to a new Facebook. Yes, they offer a bunch of fancy features, unfortunately it's at the price of true privacy. All your data, for all perpetuity, will be stored on telegram servers where you hope that at no point in the future will they be compromised or forced to rat you out.

This is not a problem that Signal faces as they do not keep any of your data.



They comply with the GDPR. You have the right and ability to both export and delete your data at short notice.




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