Does Messaging App Telegram’s Newest Privacy Update Go Too Far?

Users can permanently delete any messages or chats, which will disappear for all participants

Messaging application Telegram is putting a lot more privacy powers in the hands of its users, but is it also opening itself up for malicious use of those powers?

In version 5.5 of the app—just released via the iTunes App Store and Google Play—users are given the ability to permanently unsend any messages they have received, as well as to delete entire private chats entirely, from both their own devices and the devices of participants.

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