The administration of the US House of Representatives has been reported to prohibit the use of WhatsApp, a messaging application of congress employees.
According to the internal correspondence reached by the Axios news site, the House of Representatives warned its employees about Whatsapp application.
“Employees of the House of Representatives cannot download or keep whatsapp application to any workplace device, including mobile telephone, desktop or web browser versions of the House of Representatives, published by the Chief Administrative Officer of the US House of Representatives. His instruction was shared.
‘High Risk’
“The Cyber Security Office, the lack of transparency about how to protect user data, the lack of stored data encryption and the use of the use of WhatsApp as high -risk risks for users.” expression.
In addition, the employees were warned to be careful against the messages of potential identity theft fraud and messages from unknown numbers, while Microsoft Teams, Wickr, Signal, Imessage and Facetime were shown as an alternative to WhatsApp application.
The US House of Representatives has banned the part to Microsoft Copilot with DEPSEEK, ByTedance applications in the field of digital and artificial intelligence in recent years to protect employees’ data.
Congress employees’ use of Chatgpt was seriously restricted, and the offices were instructed to use only paid version Chatgpt Plus.
