Usually I think of cloud-based services as necessarily antithetical to user data privacy, but telegram doesn't seem to think so. They claim to be very interested in privacy (read here: https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-are-your-thoughts-on-internet-privacy) and also not to currently be or ever become motivated by profit, but they store most of your data (encrypted) on their own servers for convenience (easy access, search-ability, etc.)

Is user data safe with promises like these? Is the threat of legal action enough to guarantee that an organization like Telegram is indeed practicing what it claims to be practicing?

--Benny

p.s. Either way, it's nice to see user privacy get so much attention.