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Trump admin did the same thing with Signal. I'm pretty sure they did it because US gov't emails and IMs are for sure archived.

• dmix 1y ago
  The US gov started using Signal before Trump and they were backing up Signal chat logs (which it seems the UK wasn't doing with WhatsApp?). It was just controversial which vendor the prior US gov had chosen to handle the backups (an Israeli tech firm) and how it was used by the executive branch. But they were ultimately following transparency/archiving rules.
• ncruces 1y ago
  Politicians around the world do it on purpose because they know they can more easily get away with leaving no trace. It's not an accident they don't use government email/IM and use WhatsApp/Signal instead. But then they turn around and want to convince us it's bad when we use it. Because they're the ones handling “acceptable” secrets, somehow.
  • lazide 1y ago
    “For my friends? Anything. For my enemies? The law.” - Óscar Benavides (Though to be fair, if we’re comparing South American military dictators, he was actually almost reasonable)
• _heimdall 1y ago
  I never saw any reporting after those Signal chat stories came out. At the time it was reported that they had a period of time to make sure conversation were archived properly. It would be interesting to know if that actually happened.