Home employees cannot have WhatsApp on their devices

The House of Representatives prohibited staff members from using WhatsApp on government devices, According to a report of Axios. In an email targeted by the point of sale, the administrative director of the Chamber (CAD) tells the employees that the cybersecurity office “judged WhatsApp a high risk” due to a “lack of transparency in the way it protects user data, the lack of encryption of stored data and potential security risks”.

E-mail indicates that Congress staff cannot download or use the mobile, desktop or web browser version of WhatsApp on any government apparatus. “If you have a WhatsApp application on your device managed by the house, you will be contacted to delete it,” says the email.

Meta Communications Director Andy Stone postponed the decision In a post on xSaying that the company does not agree with the characterization of WhatsApp CAD “in the strongest possible terms”. Stone adds that messages on WhatsApp are encrypted from start to finish by default, which means that third parties – not even Meta, which has the platform – can read them. “This is a higher level of security than most applications in the approved CAD list that does not offer this protection,” writes Stone.

As indicated by The guardianThe CAD message to the staff recommended to use other applications for communications instead, such as Microsoft Teams, Signal, Imessage, FaceTime or the messaging service belonging to Amazon Wickr. CAD did not immediately respond to The penisRequest more information.