I never understand this – it’s happened now to ministers in England, Scotland, and now Wales.
When a “normal” person swaps their sim to a new phone Whatsapp has an annoying habit of nuking all past conversations even if you’re *very* careful with telling it to sync them. If it fails, as it often does, you put the sim back in the previous phone and…..yep, all messages gone from there too.
Plus these are senior government ministers. Probably a good idea to wipe Whatsapp conversations at regular intervals anyway.
He’ll be gone soon anyway.
Just wish his cretinous 20mph limit would disappear with him
Was there a policy to use WhatsApp specifically because of the lack of audit trail?
Why is government business done on Whatsapp? Why are officials not included in the chat so all discussions can be logged and stored?
Interesting comments from Mark Drakeford.
Originally he said he didn’t have WhatsApp installed.
Then it was found that he had it installed.
Then he said he had it installed but never used it.
Now he’s saying he’s “A very, very infrequent user of WhatsApp”
Hmm.
They can be recovered if the suspect isn’t a politician.
Dickford son is a nonce.They at both good of hiding things
Funny how all politicians seem to have terrible trouble with personal messaging storage. Whether it’s WhatsApp or email servers, the data just seems to slip through their fingers.
It’s like they’ve never heard of backups. /s
Literally no one cares. No one who matters, anyway.
I don’t mean that to detract how bad it is. I mean literally no one cares anymore. No one cares about what the details are on covid, or brexit, or anything associated. Maybe I’m exposed to the wrong people, but as someone working class, the worst I hear about the conservatives is “yeah pretty shit, they’ve been”, and Labour is “they want to make boys turn in to women, and want to spend our money on the boat people”.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the polls are fucked and we see a Trump-style conservative win at the GE. Because people are pretty dim and Keir is like the whitest of bread.
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I never understand this – it’s happened now to ministers in England, Scotland, and now Wales.
When a “normal” person swaps their sim to a new phone Whatsapp has an annoying habit of nuking all past conversations even if you’re *very* careful with telling it to sync them. If it fails, as it often does, you put the sim back in the previous phone and…..yep, all messages gone from there too.
Plus these are senior government ministers. Probably a good idea to wipe Whatsapp conversations at regular intervals anyway.
He’ll be gone soon anyway.
Just wish his cretinous 20mph limit would disappear with him
Was there a policy to use WhatsApp specifically because of the lack of audit trail?
Why is government business done on Whatsapp? Why are officials not included in the chat so all discussions can be logged and stored?
Interesting comments from Mark Drakeford.
Originally he said he didn’t have WhatsApp installed.
Then it was found that he had it installed.
Then he said he had it installed but never used it.
Now he’s saying he’s “A very, very infrequent user of WhatsApp”
Hmm.
They can be recovered if the suspect isn’t a politician.
This is a fun read
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/bluster-fluster-word-salad-nonsense-28798653
Dickford son is a nonce.They at both good of hiding things
Funny how all politicians seem to have terrible trouble with personal messaging storage. Whether it’s WhatsApp or email servers, the data just seems to slip through their fingers.
It’s like they’ve never heard of backups. /s
Literally no one cares. No one who matters, anyway.
I don’t mean that to detract how bad it is. I mean literally no one cares anymore. No one cares about what the details are on covid, or brexit, or anything associated. Maybe I’m exposed to the wrong people, but as someone working class, the worst I hear about the conservatives is “yeah pretty shit, they’ve been”, and Labour is “they want to make boys turn in to women, and want to spend our money on the boat people”.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the polls are fucked and we see a Trump-style conservative win at the GE. Because people are pretty dim and Keir is like the whitest of bread.