At the time of publication, Telegram is safe from government snooping for a few reasons. First, messages sent in Secret Chat are end-to-end encrypted, and Telegram does not store these messages on its own servers. This means that unless the government has access to your device, it does not have access to your private messages or content within Telegram. Messages sent across the platform without Secret Chat enabled, however, are stored on the Cloud network because Telegram is a cloud-based software. If you want to be able to access your content anywhere from any device, it must be uploaded somewhere. Hence, the Cloud. When deciding whether to use Secret Chat for the end-to-end encryption benefits, you must also determine which is more important to you – the convenience of accessing content from any device or the security of encrypted messages only accessible through one device.