By now you’d assume most government organisations are aware of the risks associated with consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram being used in the workplace.
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By now you’d assume most government organisations are aware of the risks associated with consumer messaging apps like #
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Telegram being used in the workplace.
Consumer apps, convenient for personal use, are completely unsuited for official communications. They lack the necessary security, auditability and management controls that public sector organisations require. Furthermore, imagine your country’s digital infrastructure being operationally dependent on a consumer app from a private tech company, run out of an entirely different country...
Yet the Scottish government raised eyebrows when it announced it is banning the use of WhatsApp and any other "non-corporate" messaging services from spring next year.
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