Facebook and Google has a privacy policy too. Even the NSA has a privacy policy : https://www.nsa.gov/terms-of-use/#privacy

In practice these documents don't really relate what the company is actually doing with your data. It's just something that has to be there on a website.

It's not about having the privacy policy, it's about what it says. DuckDuckGo says it does not collect anything. What do others say?

So why do you trust what they say? If Google or MS says it it's irrelevant but if a small company without any supervision says it it's true?

It's like ppl saying Telegram is private just because they say so.

> Telegram is private just because they say so.

Can you give one instance where Telegram lied about privacy?

It is very clear it is not e2ee on their website. They are private. Many privacy features on Telegram do not exist on other platforms.

> If Google or MS says it it's irrelevant

Google and MS say that they do collect a lot of data. I indeed trust them here... What’s the point?