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community appsoptional e2eeunique usernamescentralizedpermissionedphone numberaccount-basedno self-custodycompliant teamhostile jurisdictionno metadata protectionno default encryptiontoken2013

No encryption on desktops

Telegram does not support e2e encryption on desktop devices.

No encryption by default

The company can read all "private" messages, unless e2e encryption was enabled by opening a "secret chat", which is only available on mobile devices.