Telegram users can now delete chats on other people’s devices anytime

Telegram, an instant messaging service application has come up with a new option which allows users to delete messages on other people’s devices anytime.The latest version of Telegram has added this significant privacy policy to ensure that users have better control of their chats. Earlier, users were provided witha 48-hour time framewithin which they could delete their own messages from other people’s devices. There is no time limit now and the users can delete the entire chat history from their own phones as well as anyone else who was part of the conversation.

It seems like a drastic measure to give users this kind of control on someone else’s chat.  However, PavelDurov, founder of Telegram justifies that it is important to help people take control of their digital history. The facility to wipe out the entire chat history will allow people to get rid of their past indiscretions.“An old message you already forgot about can be taken out of context and used against you decades later. We have to admit that despite all of our progress in encryption and privacy, we have very little actual control of our data,”he said.

The WhatsApp rival won three million followers during the recent Facebook outage.Other features that the messaging platform has added are new sticker sets that feature the likenesses of Valve’s Gabe Newell, Snoop Dogg, Borat, Bender, Vladimir Putin, Ryan Gosling, and Yolandi from Die Antwoord.