Telegram formally executed the court decision in India, user data was not transferred

Recently, the Indian resource LiveLaw.in reported Telegram had complied with the requirement of the Delhi Supreme Court and disclosed to the Indian authorities the names, phone numbers and IP addresses of a pirate channel administrators.

According to a source close to Telegram, the messenger sent what was there, and nothing more. And if there was nothing, then nothing was sent. He also explained that not all information is available even to the management of the messenger, for example, without knowing a specific phone number, Telegram often cannot obtain any data about the user.

According to the source, the court decision was executed only formally, but in fact, no names, phone numbers and IP addresses of the "pirates" were transferred to the Indian authorities due to the impossibility of obtaining them by Telegram itself according to the data provided by the court.

This information was indirectly confirmed by Telegram representative Remy Vaughn in a comment to TechCrunch:

Telegram stores very limited or no data on its users. In most cases, we can’t even access any user data without specific entry points, and we believe this was the case here. Consequently, we can’t confirm that any private data has been shared in this instance.

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