WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
The US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed “a high-risk to users”
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Why would staffers want personal chat threads on a device that is subject to FOIA?
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Its baffling to me tbh. I was once federal IT and got a death glare for suggesting somebody not use their family wide shared icloud account on a device subject to FOIA. Particularly given the (admittedly, entirely hypothetical) potential for every connected device to be seized and wiped in the event of data spillage.
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I don't know the demographics of congressional staffers but I could imagine a recent grad trying to live on recent grad pay in DC could see the .gov phone as one less bill every month
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Everyone was already added to Drunk Pete’s Signal group