🏆 A new contest for iOS developers with a total prize fund of $50,000 will be announced this Friday. The winner may be offered a chance to explore further cooperation opportunities with 🛫 Telegram.

📰 My previous post may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works. But in reality, little has changed.

🌐 Since 2018, Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses/phone numbers of criminals to authorities, according to our Privacy Policy in most countries.

⚖️ Whenever we received a properly formed legal request via relevant communication lines, we would verify it and disclose the IP addresses/phone numbers of dangerous criminals. This process had been in place long before last week.

🤖 Our @transparency bot demonstrates exactly that. This bot shows the number of processed requests for user data.

✉️ For example, in Brazil, we disclosed data for 75 legal requests in Q1 (January-March) 2024, 63 in Q2, and 65 in Q3. In India, our largest market, we satisfied 2461 legal requests in Q1, 2151 in Q2, and 2380 in Q3.

📈 In Europe, there was an uptick in the number of valid legal requests we received in Q3. This increase was caused by the fact that more EU authorities started to use the correct communication line for their requests, the one mandated by the EU DSA law. Information about this contact point has been publicly available to anyone who viewed the Telegram website or googled “Telegram EU address for law enforcement” since early 2024. 

🤝 To reduce confusion, last week, we streamlined and unified our privacy policy across different countries. But our core principles haven’t changed. We’ve always strived to comply with relevant local laws — as long as they didn’t go against our values of freedom and privacy.

🛡 Telegram was built to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations — we do not allow criminals to abuse our platform or evade justice.

Transparency report for the period 01.01.24–30.09.24

🇩🇰Fulfilled requests from Denmark for IP address and/or phone number: 1
Affected users: 1

🇵🇱Fulfilled requests from Poland for IP address and/or phone number: 13
Affected users: 53

🇮🇹Fulfilled requests from Italy for IP address and/or phone number: 6
Affected users: 18

🇪🇸Fulfilled requests from Spain for IP address and/or phone number: 22
Affected users: 85

🇺🇸Fulfilled requests from the United States of America for IP address and/or phone number: 14
Affected users: 108

🇧🇷Fulfilled requests from Brazil for IP address and/or phone number:
Q1 – 75
Q2 – 63
Q3 – 65

Affected users:
Q1 – 133
Q2 – 114
Q3 – 122

🇬🇧Fulfilled requests from the United Kingdom for IP address and/or phone number: 3
Affected users: 7

🇫🇷Fulfilled requests from France for IP address and/or phone number:
Q1 — 4
Q2 – 6
Q3 – 210
Total: 220

Affected users:
Q1 – 17
Q2 – 37
Q3 – 632
Total: 686

Fulfilled requests from Estonia for IP address and/or phone number: 2
Affected users: 5

🇮🇳Fulfilled requests from India for IP address and/or phone number:
Q1 — 2461
Q2 – 2151
Q3 – 2380
Total: 6992

Affected users:
Q1 – 5675
Q2 – 4963
Q3 – 4952
Total: 15590

🇬🇷 Fulfilled requests from Greece for IP address and/or phone number: 1
Affected users: 1

🇳🇱 Fulfilled requests from the Netherlands for IP address and/or phone number: 1
Affected users: 1

🇧🇪 Fulfilled requests from Belgium for IP address and/or phone number:
Q1 — 1
Q2 – 4
Q3 – 53
Total: 58

Affected users:
Q1 – 1
Q2 – 4
Q3 – 125
Total: 130

🇫🇮 Fulfilled requests from Finland for IP address and/or phone number: 5
Affected users: 14

🇳🇱 Fulfilled requests from the Netherlands for IP address and/or phone number: 1
Affected users: 1

🇸🇪 Fulfilled requests from Sweden for IP address and/or phone number: 3
Affected users: 17

🇷🇴 Fulfilled requests from Romania for IP address and/or phone number: 3
Affected users: 3

🇩🇪Fulfilled requests from Germany for IP address and/or phone number: 53
Affected users: 115

All requests are processed according to paragraph 8.3 of the Privacy Policy. For more information, see Telegram's User Guidance for the EU Digital Services Act.

The next transparency report will be published in January 2025. Telegram’s annual DSA transparency report for 2024 will be released separately in January 2025.

📰 New #Telemojis:

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Thanks : 💌💌💌

Due to the recent events in the Middle East, particularly in Israel, Lebanon, and Iran, Telegram experienced unprecedented loads. In the past few days, some users may have faced temporary connection issues and difficulties accessing media. Thanks to our technical team's efforts, Telegram remained available in most countries, and all issues are now fully resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– @Telegram ✉️

🥳 The holiday season (which includes my birthday 😏) is just around the corner, and today we are launching Gifts!

🎁 Gifts are a great way to congratulate your loved ones on important events. Gift recipients can choose to display them on their profiles or sell them for Stars ⭐

📦 Some gifts are in limited supply. Later this year we’ll introduce the ability to convert these limited-edition gifts into TON-based NFTs. Users will then be able to auction and trade these tokenized gifts outside Telegram, with ownership recorded on the blockchain 🔗

🔜 We also launched other exciting features today, which I’ll cover in a separate post. For now, I’ll let you dive into the gift selection process 🫴🙂

- @Durov

🏷 Yesterday we introduced two limited-edition gifts. Both have now sold out. The entire supply of 🍭500,000 lollipops and 🌸100,000 cherry blossoms was gone within hours 😮

⚡️ We didn’t expect that to happen so fast, so we’re now working on an update to better handle sold-out items 👨‍💻

🛒 Should we introduce more limited-edition gifts? ❓

- @Durov