Communicator WhatsApp belonging to Meta Platforms has been banned on all devices of members of the House of United States Representativesin accordance with the service note sent on Monday to all employees of the Chamber.
The notification that Reuters quotes was found that “The Cyber security office recognized WhatsApp as a high risk application for users due to the lack of transparency in the scope of user data protection, no encryption of stored data and potential threats to security related to its use“.
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The Chamber of US representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress (next to the Senate). It consists of 435 members elected for two years of terms. He represents citizens in proportion to the population of individual states and deals with adopting laws, budget control and supervision over the actions of the executive power.
What instead of WhatsApp?
In the service note, the administrative director recommended the use of other messengers, including the platform Teams Microsoft Corp, Wickr Amazon, Signal and iMessage and Guy Apple.
The finish “definitely disagreed” with this decisionAs the company spokesman informed, stating that The platform provides a higher level of safety than other approved applications.
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Reuters Pzypomina that in January WhatsApp announced that the Israeli company Paragon Solutions dealt with spy software attacked many application users, including journalists and members of civil society.
In the past, the House of Representatives forbade the use of other applications on employee devices, including applications for short Tiktok movies in 2022 due to security issues.
