Telegram reportedly surrendered user data to authorities despite still saying to the contrary

Messaging apps that offer end-to-end encryption can claim that they're protecting their users by saying that they've thrown away the key — metaphorical and literal — and can't undo what's been scrambled in transmission. Telegram, however, claims it protects every user whether they use E2EE or not, saying that government data requests have to pass an especially high muster before they would comply and that they have never acceded to such request. Not so, a report claims.