{"id":940912,"date":"2025-06-24T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940912"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:15:18","slug":"whatsapp-banned-on-us-house-of-representatives-devices-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/24\/whatsapp-banned-on-us-house-of-representatives-devices-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp banned on US House of Representatives devices: Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Meta Platforms&#8217; WhatsApp messaging service has been banned from all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to all House staff on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The notice said the &#8220;Office 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Meta Platforms&#8217; WhatsApp messaging service has been banned from all US House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to all House staff on Monday. The notice said the &#8220;Office 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}