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for telegram you need a phone number as well, which is bad if not for security, then for privacy reasons
You can hide your phone numbers from other Telegram users and still chat with them (this is the default). On Signal, anyone you chat with will have your phone number.
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Ads are only coming to public channels were channel owners already publish ad messages. Signal is located in USA, so it's quite easy for NSA et al to pressure Signal to implement backdoors.
This comment is downvoted but as a person in the EU I can wholly agree with it. It's not that I never use american made/hosted products but it is definitely a consideration when making a choice. It's not that I don't like Americans, but your government and government agencies have verifiably proven that they don't care about the things I care about.
User explicitly shares location to all people nearby, discovers it is accessible to all people. Feature is disabled by default, and user must find this and enable it. They are not even prompted to enable it unless they seek it.
A user does not show up in “People nearby” unless they enable the function. Doing so triggers a warning from Telegram informing you your location is about to be published and it may lead to undesired attention so it really can’t happen by accident. I’m also using the app on iOS, the operating system asks periodically if I want to continue sharing location in the background (in case I forget to turn it off) or I can j…
Yeah, it seems pretty explicit that you're making your location public when you press this button. I'd say the 'bug' is in people not realising that pushing their location to a 'show users near me' function inherently reveals their location to some degree of accuracy.
This is a non-issue, this guy "Ahmed" is just fishing for attention with an incendiary title.
Please change title so that it reflects that shared location is only for those who explicitly enabled feature to do so and not implicitly that all users location is shared.
"Telegram publishes users' locations online only for those who explicitly enabled feature to do so and not implicitly that all users location is shared" is a bit long for a title. While you're right, the title is accurate although it comes with bunch of caveats of course, some of them outlined in the article. That's why we read the full article instead of just titles. More caveats are that they are using a smartphone…
Why add more?
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You can hide your phone numbers from other Telegram users and still chat with them (this is the default). On Signal, anyone you chat with will have your phone number.
While you can hide your phone number, I don't think that is the default. https://telegram.org/faq#q-who-can-see-my-phone-number
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While you can hide your phone number, I don't think that is the default. https://telegram.org/faq#q-who-can-see-my-phone-number
Doesn't your link say exactly what parent said?
> your number is only visible to people who you've added to your address book as contacts
Means they already have my number.
There is still a tiny difference. I can pick a username and chat with people who have my phone number (without them knowing it is me). It's a very small difference.
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Doesn't your link say exactly what parent said?
Now that I think of it, my comment was unnecessary. > your number is only visible to people who you've added to your address book as contacts Means they already have my number. There is still a tiny difference. I can pick a username and chat with people who have my phone number (without them knowing it is me). It's a very small difference.
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it's a privacy issue. Users who enable the feature don't understand that are basically publishing thier latitude longitude online. Which can be resolved into a home address.
Blanket stating that users don't understand is pretty dismissive and frankly quite patronising. I'm a big privacy advocate, so I don't personally like volunteering location info, but personally know lots of people who will happily do so for all sorts of reasons (e.g. seeing each other on snapchat maps), they understand what they're doing. Simple fact is, plenty of people just _don't care_ and that is their right to d…
It seems like it would be rather easy to create an automated tool for triangulating users locations; by spoofing the GPS location of ones phone say 33 times, it should be very easy to triangulate every single person in the 'nearby' section.
