{"id":941088,"date":"2025-06-25T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941088"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:36:52","slug":"from-whatsapp-to-tiktok-app-bans-that-have-swept-us-government-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/25\/from-whatsapp-to-tiktok-app-bans-that-have-swept-us-government-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"From WhatsApp to TikTok: App bans that have swept US government devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms\u2019 WhatsApp messaging service has been banned from all devices issued by the US House of Representatives. A memo sent to House staff on Monday explained that 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<p>But WhatsApp isn\u2019t the only app banned on US government devices over privacy and security concerns. Here are a few others that have faced a similar fate:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms\u2019 WhatsApp messaging service has been banned from all devices issued by the US House of Representatives. A memo sent to House staff on Monday explained that 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; But WhatsApp isn\u2019t the only app banned on US government devices over privacy and security concerns. Here are a few others that have faced a similar fate:<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941088","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=941088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}