{"id":19239,"date":"2025-06-24T07:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/whatsapp-messaging-app-banned-on-all-us-house-of-representatives-devices\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:37:49","slug":"whatsapp-messaging-app-banned-on-all-us-house-of-representatives-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/whatsapp-messaging-app-banned-on-all-us-house-of-representatives-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to \u2018lack of transparency in how it protects user data\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/whatsapp\">WhatsApp<\/a> messaging service has been banned on all US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/house-of-representatives\">House of Representatives<\/a> devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The notice to all House staff said that the \u201cOffice of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/23\/whatsapp-ban-house-representatives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b2cb95484d41a4fce89684cfe98bcac63fba1476\/61_0_1875_1501\/master\/1875.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=17762811fd2da041430450b815351e45\" title=\"WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices\" \/>Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to \u2018lack of transparency in how it protects user data\u2019<br \/>\nThe WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday.<br \/>\nThe notice to all House staff said that the \u201cOffice of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to \u2018lack of transparency in how it protects user data\u2019 The WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday. The notice to all House staff said that the \u201cOffice of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/whatsapp-messaging-app-banned-on-all-us-house-of-representatives-devices\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}