It seems that Telegram is not having it all lately. After all the controversy that has taken place in Spain, now there are, and rightly so, doubts about the privacy risks that the application itself poses to users with a dangerous agreement: premium subscription in exchange for using your number so that unknown users have access to one-time access codes.
As it is evident, accepting those conditions to obtain those benefits can be very dangerous for both parties, since phone numbers should not be easily revealed, and another user handling a stranger’s access code could lead to massive account theft, so it is dangerous in both directions.
A service with more cons than pros
As we explained in Softonic, Telegram is preparing a service that connects unknown users to facilitate SMS login to accounts without a phone number. To do this, it offers users with a phone number Premium subscriptions to Telegram for being part of this service. However, there are many visible holes in this project.
Considering the fragility of this idea, it is unlikely that Telegram will be allowed to carry out this service in the European Union, but this tool, which is already being tested in selected countries, will allow hundreds of unknown users to see the phone number of the user who carries out this service to have a subscription without using money.
The complicated days of Telegram in Spain
It is also not having a good legal moment in Spain. In fact, although these measures have already been suspended because of how disproportionate they are, the fact that Telegram allows the easy dissemination of copyrighted content has caused some of the major producers in Spain to raise their voices, requesting that access to Telegram be banned.
During the last few days, it seemed that the ban on Telegram was imminent, but it was all due to a confusion by Judge Pedraz, who did not have an exact understanding of what Telegram was or how it worked, something that would have led the judge to associate content dissemination and the Internet with it being a website specifically dedicated to hosting content, like Megaupload and many others were at the time.
