Blogging
Telegraph privacy rating
Minimal publishing tool from Telegram for posting formatted articles with images, without an account. Pages are public to anyone with the link.
Summary
Telegraph scores 28 out of 100 (grade F) on the blogging criteria. It meets 1 of 8 criteria: TLS configuration. It partly meets no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales. It does not meet open source, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in the British Virgin Islands: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B-.
Score 28 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Partial
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No third-party trackers are loaded, but every page loads a Telegram sync script from t.me, and no privacy policy covers Telegraph.
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Partial
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Telegraph pages show no ads, but the service is run by Telegram, which is partly funded by contextual ads in its messenger.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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No
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
No transparency report or government request policy covers Telegraph.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+
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No
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B- (65/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.