Amid WhatsApp row in India, Telegram vouches for user privacy

As WhatsApp struggles to meet the requirements set by the Indian government over its controversial user privacy policy, its archrival Telegram on Thursday reiterated that unlike many other messaging apps, it is not dependent on a third-party platform to store its user data that leads to an additional layer of security, thus eliminating the possibilities of a back-door access.

After a battle of words over Twitter with WhatsApp last week where Telegram took a jibe by tweeting a meme that suggested it was time to “bin” WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook, the highly encrypted messaging app said that despite all this, it is growing at a very fast rate in India which is one of the key markets for the company.