| Level B
Service is not suitable for all use cases. Services may also collect and/or disclose information to third parties such as advertisers and business partners. Service provider may also unilaterally change the licensing, terms of usage or privacy settings. For example grading information and evaluation, research plans, development information, personal information (PII), financial information (e.g. business or other IPR) and information containing archiving responsibilities are not suitable for level C services. University's has no ability or legal mandate to manage the stored information in case of any problem situations. Such cases can be for example employers death or service provider's bankruptcy. Service provider can unilaterally change terms of service and privacy. NB! Classifications in Cloud Guide pages concern only so-called consumer services, cloud services personally adopted by the user. The services adopted by the University (possibly with a separate agreement) may have different implementation and terms of use. |
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Telegram
Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging appTerms of Service & Privacy Policy
https://core.telegram.org/api/terms-of-use
There are no specific TOS:
"In case you want a real Terms of Use, complete with lawyer-speak and all — we don't have that yet, sorry. But we may be adding it in the future".
Privacy: https://telegram.org/privacy
API interface TOS: https://core.telegram.org/api/terms-of-use
Evaluation
(Estimated 03.02.2017)
End to End ecryption is possible
Versatile; Group discussions,Bots, Channels, Multimedia, File Transfer to 1,5Gt
Open (mainly) Source (at least APIs)
Auditing possilbe for Third Party
Good documentation (esp. for Security Features)
Compatible with other messaging apps, for example Slack and Irc
Account can be removed by user (all data will be removed)
Unused account will be deleted after 6 months afer last login, all data will be removed
Data is stored to Cloud
Phone app is mandatory to install
Encryption is not on by default
Uses own encryption protocol MTProto Mobile Protocol https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/description (which is well descripted ) but only some of Telegam´s clients uses it
Login
Logging is done by full (international) phone number and password while installing Telegam Client. Account is verified by SMS.
Support
No TOS no full support
Provider
Telegram Org (Pavel and Nikolai Durov).
Revenue
Pavel Durov is financing Telegram for ideological reasons.
Similar services
Signal, WhatsApp