# 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-.

- Website: https://telegra.ph
- Jurisdiction: British Virgin Islands. Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes.
- Home page trackers: none found
- Category: [Blogging](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/)
- Grade: F (28/100)

## Criteria

| Criterion | Answer | Note | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open source | No | Closed source. |  |
| No trackers or telemetry | Partial | No third-party trackers are loaded, but every page loads a Telegram sync script from t.me, and no privacy policy covers Telegraph. | https://telegra.ph/ |
| No ads or data sales | Partial | Telegraph pages show no ads, but the service is run by Telegram, which is partly funded by contextual ads in its messenger. | https://telegram.org/privacy |
| Independent audit | No | No independent audit is published. |  |
| Transparency report | No | No transparency report or government request policy covers Telegraph. |  |
| Tells users about requests | No | No published policy on notifying users about data requests. |  |
| TLS configuration | Yes | Grade A+ | https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=telegra.ph&hideResults=on |
| Security headers | No | Grade B- (65/100+) | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory/analyze?host=telegra.ph |
| Modern web standards | Not tested yet | Not tested yet. |  |

Source: https://privacyratings.com/blogging/telegraph/
Edit: https://github.com/privacyratings/privacyratings.com/edit/main/ratings/blogging/telegraph.md