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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months ago

Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business

www.scotsman.com

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Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business

www.scotsman.com

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months ago
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Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business - and here's why
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Ministers said the ban will come into force in the spring
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  • @[email protected]
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    8•5 months ago

    Amazing ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

  • @[email protected]
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    42•5 months ago

    Is there some meme I’m unaware of, or are all of these other commenters bots?

    • @[email protected]
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      11•5 months ago

    • @[email protected]
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      6•5 months ago

      Their profiles don’t look like obvious bots :/

      • FundMECFS
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        2•5 months ago

        I know atleast 2 of them to not be bots.

        avieshek has a website and I remember them from reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      6•5 months ago

      Bots. But bots can be paid people these days

  • chi-chan~
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    3•5 months ago

    Amazing. ( ˃̶͈ ᴗ ˂̶͈ )

  • @[email protected]
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    26•5 months ago

    Why was it previously allowed, one may ask.

    • @[email protected]
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      30•5 months ago

      Probably because it’s the defacto messaging app in the UK and nobody probably questioned it.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•5 months ago

      In some countries generals communicate via WhatsApp, and one can call that luck, because in other cases they use PSTN.

      Of course, that state and its generals are not considered good enough to be called that seriously by anyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      6•5 months ago

      Bear in mind as well that the Scottish government rejected a lot of the privatisation that the remainder of the UK went through, so ‘government’ doesn’t just mean civil servants in offices, it means things like Scottish Forestry and Scottish Water as well. Need to manage small teams of people over very large areas who are frequently out of mobile phone contact, as well as sharing information with subcontractors who will frequently be one-man-band operators who may just have a van and a mobile phone; no laptop, no IT team.

      So ‘convenient’, but also ‘almost nothing else would be practicable’.

  • @[email protected]
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    10•5 months ago

    Amazing ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

  • Avieshek
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    5 months ago

    Amazing (˵^◡^˵)

  • Ben Hur Horse Race
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    5•5 months ago

    amazing ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

    • FundMECFS
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      2•5 months ago

      Amazing (๑・̑◡・̑๑)

  • @[email protected]
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    5•5 months ago

    amazing (^_-)-☆

  • @[email protected]
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    14•5 months ago

    Finally, the Scottish have shown us the way once again

  • @[email protected]
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    15•5 months ago

    https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

  • [R3D4CT3D]
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    12•5 months ago

    amazing ( ◠‿◠ )

    • @[email protected]
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      8•5 months ago

      Why did you post this? Ps nice emoticon

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