WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
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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”
Why would staffers want personal chat threads on a device that is subject to FOIA?
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.
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