Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram is being used by more people in India. But giving information about how safe it is, the government has said that social media apps like WhatsApp and Telegram are not safe for sharing confidential information or documents. It has been said that sharing confidential information through these platforms can be risky. Regarding which the government has told the officials that all government employees should not use WhatsApp, Telegram, or other social media apps to share confidential information.
According to news agency IANS, the government has said that the servers of these apps are owned by private companies across the world and the information can be misused by anti-India forces. Said that during the Work From Home (WFH) period, the officers should connect through e-office application only. This order of the government also applies to Amazon Alexa, Apple HomePod, Google Meet, Zoom, etc.
This order of the government has been given after analyzing the flaws in the existing system on WhatsApp, Telegram, and other social media apps. The Center has taken on advice given by intelligence agencies resulting in frequent violations of national communication norms and government directives to avoid leaks of secret information. The government has directed all ministries to take “immediate steps” to prevent such breaches and to strictly enforce communication security policies and guidelines while dealing with sensitive or restricted communications.
In addition, new communication guidelines have been distributed to all central ministries and departments, and top officials have been instructed not to use smart-watches or smart phones during meetings while discussing confidential or national security-related issues. . Not only this, the rules for virtual meetings are also mentioned in the new standards of communication advisory.
Let us inform that since the Corona epidemic, work from home and video meetings have been normalized for the private and government sector. The officers are advised to use only video conference solutions set up by the Department of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), National Informatics Center (NIC).
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