Marginal improvement in what sense? When considering privacy, Telegram is by far the worst option. They store the plaintext message history on the server of every message that every user has ever sent or received.<p>Even if WhatsApp weren&#x27;t using end to end encryption by default, they would have no way of complying with government requests like this one, because they simply don&#x27;t have the messages.  Telegram, on the other hand, is a surveillance dream.