{"id":216509,"date":"2025-06-24T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:08:37","slug":"u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Bans WhatsApp on Official Devices Over Security and Data Protection Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-house-bans-whatsapp-on-official-devices-over-security-and-data-protection-issues2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has formally banned congressional staff members from using WhatsApp on government-issued devices, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The development was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/06\/23\/whatsapp-house-congress-staffers-messaging-app\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by Axios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has formally banned congressional staff members from using WhatsApp on government-issued devices, citing security concerns. The development was first reported by Axios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}