Ephemeral and easily deleted messages like whatsapp and others have no business being used by governments.
one of the big problems with the COVID inquiry is that so much decision-making was done by these message services, with so much deleted, that there’s no way to figure out what decisions were made, and whether they were done well or poorly.
which means there’s no way to identify where things could be improved, to draw up a better plan to handle the next pandemic, whenever that may be.
deleting inconvenient messages is temporary political gain for a handful of politicians, at the expense of future governments ability to protect the citizens, and to govern well.
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I thought it wasn’t used for official business?
Still used for ‘unofficial’ business, but remember to delete
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” Tacitus.
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Ephemeral and easily deleted messages like whatsapp and others have no business being used by governments.
one of the big problems with the COVID inquiry is that so much decision-making was done by these message services, with so much deleted, that there’s no way to figure out what decisions were made, and whether they were done well or poorly.
which means there’s no way to identify where things could be improved, to draw up a better plan to handle the next pandemic, whenever that may be.
deleting inconvenient messages is temporary political gain for a handful of politicians, at the expense of future governments ability to protect the citizens, and to govern well.
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