{"id":7603,"date":"2022-10-30T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/ministers-creating-wild-west-conditions-with-use-of-personal-phones\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:37:44","slug":"ministers-creating-wild-west-conditions-with-use-of-personal-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/ministers-creating-wild-west-conditions-with-use-of-personal-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers creating \u2018wild west\u2019 conditions with use of personal phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsecured mobiles, email accounts and WhatsApp chats could pose national security risk, intelligence experts warn<\/p>\n<p>Ministers risk creating \u201cwild west\u201d conditions in matters of national security by the increased use of personal email and phones to conduct confidential business, intelligence experts and former officials have warned.<\/p>\n<p>After a week tainted by a row over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/26\/suella-braverman-return-after-security-breach-defended-by-james-cleverly\">use of a personal email account<\/a> by the home secretary, it was revealed on Sunday that Liz Truss\u2019s mobile is alleged to have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/29\/government-urged-to-investigate-report-liz-truss-phone-was-hacked\" title=\"\">hacked by overseas agents.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/30\/minister-creating-wild-west-conditions-personal-unsecured-mobile-phone-email-account-whatsapp-national-security-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3e091aaf1c3edaa476acc5e88ff26602de76c414\/0_64_1920_1152\/master\/1920.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=150e91b1d85fe27fc19a55273a34e2b9\" title=\"Ministers creating \u2018wild west\u2019 conditions with use of personal phones\" \/>Unsecured mobiles, email accounts and WhatsApp chats could pose national security risk, intelligence experts warn<br \/>\nMinisters risk creating \u201cwild west\u201d conditions in matters of national security by the increased use of personal email and phones to conduct confidential business, intelligence experts and former officials have warned.<br \/>\nAfter a week tainted by a row over the use of a personal email account by the home secretary, it was revealed on Sunday that Liz Truss\u2019s mobile is alleged to have been hacked by overseas agents. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsecured mobiles, email accounts and WhatsApp chats could pose national security risk, intelligence experts warn Ministers risk creating \u201cwild west\u201d conditions in matters of national security by the increased use of personal email and phones to conduct confidential business, intelligence experts and former officials have warned. After a week tainted by a row over the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/ministers-creating-wild-west-conditions-with-use-of-personal-phones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ministers creating \u2018wild west\u2019 conditions with use of personal phones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7604,"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\/7603"}],"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=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}