Over in the USA it is a crime to destroy records of any government business for those records are the property of the country, not the property of whatever government that just happen to be in at that time
It’s so hard to get work places to stop using WhatsApp. So much customer personal info that we all know is likely compromised. Very often banning minister, gov workers etc is a way to get other businesses to start considering following suit.
What’s the proposed alternative though? Ultimately WhatsApp is a very, very, good way to communicate with a lot of people in a work team.
James Bond movies led me to believe the UK government was incredibly high tech. I feel my whole life is a lie.
5 comments
Over in the USA it is a crime to destroy records of any government business for those records are the property of the country, not the property of whatever government that just happen to be in at that time
>[Telegraph: Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages from ‘partygate’ are ‘no longer available’](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/03/22/boris-johnsons-whatsapp-messages-partygate-no-longer-available/)
>
>Private messages during various national lockdowns not accessible after Prime Minister changed his mobile number, court hears
>
>(https://archive.ph/IwnSe)
–
>[Guardian: Government work often done on WhatsApp during Covid, says top official](https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/22/government-work-often-done-on-instant-messages-during-covid-says-top-official)
>
>Statement comes as it emerges that series of messages lost from Boris Johnson’s phone in April 2021
–
>[GoodLawProject: Government reveals that none of the Prime Minister’s phone messages prior to April 2021 can be searched](https://goodlawproject.org/update/pm-messages-cannot-be-searched/)
[deleted]
It’s so hard to get work places to stop using WhatsApp. So much customer personal info that we all know is likely compromised. Very often banning minister, gov workers etc is a way to get other businesses to start considering following suit.
What’s the proposed alternative though? Ultimately WhatsApp is a very, very, good way to communicate with a lot of people in a work team.
James Bond movies led me to believe the UK government was incredibly high tech. I feel my whole life is a lie.