It can also be misinterpreted by law enforcement agencies and used to profile individuals. The information you share on Telegram can be very revealing. Tools such as the Oxygen Forensic Cloud Extractor can be used to acquire “data from the most popular cloud services” including WhatsApp, iCloud, Google, Microsoft, Mi Cloud, Huawei, Samsung, E-Mail (IMAP) Servers and more - “also various social media services are supported to include but not limited to: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many more.” So the use of this technology means there is no limit on what they can obtain, no transparency and no clear, accessible or effective legal safeguards to protect your data from risk of abuse and misuse. These techniques means law enforcement can circumvent asking companies like Telegram for your data and avoid getting a warrant. Why? Because our research exposes that law enforcement can use cloud extraction techniques to obtain vast quantities of your data.

It's important to understand how much of your data is stored in the cloud.

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