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Signal, WhatsApp use by Australian agencies lack safeguards, report finds

By Saloni Sinha ( March 19, 2025, 06:04 GMT | Insight) -- About 12 Australian government agencies “encourage” and “endorse” the use of Signal, an encrypted messaging application, with four of those agencies lacking adequate policies about its use, according to the country’s competition watchdog. In a report published today, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, recommended that to improve information governance, government agencies should develop a policy to clearly set out “whether or not they permit the use of messaging apps for work purposes.”About 12 Australian government agencies “encourage” and “endorse” the use of Signal, an encrypted messaging application, with four of those agencies lacking adequate policies about its use, according to the country’s competition watchdog....

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