UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
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UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
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Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#2For those unfamiliar, Private Eve is an excellent magazine with a long history. It takes a humourous but serious investgative look at UK politics, business etc looking at eg corruption and double standards. With cartoons and iconic front page puns.
And for the large part it avoided the pitfalls of moving online. Current issue: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/current-issue
Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#3For those not following the topic, among others, the UK, EU, US - all officially endorsed the use of Signal for official government use.
Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#4I think they ought to legislate this into normality. The alternative is to make it mandatory to note all conversations with colleagues for the public record, however trivial, which is obviously absurd. An IM conversation is a personal conversation, treating it any other way will stifle the effective function of government.
Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#5I think they ought to legislate this into normality. The alternative is to make it mandatory to note all conversations with colleagues for the public record, however trivial, which is obviously absurd. An IM conversation is a personal conversation, treating it any other way will stifle the effective function of government.
It's not a personal conversation if you're working for the government and talking about topics that pertain to government functions. You have no right to privacy in the same way that your average citizen (should) be when your decisions affect the lives of millions. There needs to be a paper trail or power becomes even more opaque than it already is and all accountability goes out the window. There can be no democracy if your government can hide everything they do. The records don't necessarily need to always be public, but they do need to be stored so FOI requests can be served when necessary.
Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#6I think they ought to legislate this into normality. The alternative is to make it mandatory to note all conversations with colleagues for the public record, however trivial, which is obviously absurd. An IM conversation is a personal conversation, treating it any other way will stifle the effective function of government.
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Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#7I think they ought to legislate this into normality. The alternative is to make it mandatory to note all conversations with colleagues for the public record, however trivial, which is obviously absurd. An IM conversation is a personal conversation, treating it any other way will stifle the effective function of government.
The media used does does not affect the privacy/non-privacy of the discussion in any way.
Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#8For those not following the topic, among others, the UK, EU, US - all officially endorsed the use of Signal for official government use.
Do you have a link for that? I often get ask questions about secure messaging, and I always have a hard time giving anything better than "it depends".
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#9It’s “funny” how the U.K. government endorse signal for covering their tracks but want backdoors put in because other people can’t be trusted.
Furthermore, it should be illegal for governments to use self-destructing messages.
Re: UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
#10It’s “funny” how the U.K. government endorse signal for covering their tracks but want backdoors put in because other people can’t be trusted. Furthermore, it should be illegal for governments to use self-destructing messages.
Not surprising really: People do tend to assume others will act like themselves would in the same situation.