Secret Chats are encrypted so that only you and your recipient can read them — Telegram itself cannot access the content and does not store these messages on its servers.
If you use the Secret Chat feature, your messages are protected by end-to-end encryption that Telegram cannot break, and no server-side logs of those conversations are kept, providing materially stronger privacy than regular chats.
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Compare across platforms →Secret Chats provide genuine privacy protection that cloud chats do not; users who want their conversations to be inaccessible to Telegram and third parties must specifically use this feature.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision is relevant to GDPR Art. 25 (data protection by design and by default), Art. 32 (security of processing), and Article 5(1)(f) (integrity and confidentiality). The ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC, as amended) also governs confidentiality of electronic communications for EU users. For US users, ECPA's wiretap provisions (18 U.S.C. § 2511) are implicated by the end-to-end encryption architecture.
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