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What really surprises me is that each time this comes up the official guidance that comes back is "yeah, that's fine".
aggi-
Its a particularly triggering issue for me because between about 2009 and 2012 I was put under a lot of pressure to discipline (and even fire) NHS employees for using personal devices for Trust business. And that pressure came from the DoH and the Health Minister(s). Admitedly not a partisan thing and it was in response to some serious breaches but even so, standards matter.
The other reason its frustrating is because of the device security that should be in place in Downing Street and Whitehall. Friends who work in those environements (mostly MoD) have to sign their phones in when they enter the building. Why should government ministers be allowed to use personal phones when they are exposed to issues of national security on the regular?
Stonehedge
And also why it should be a criminal offence for an MP to use anything other than a logged/monitored messaging system to conduct government business. None of this "oh no I lost my phone with my whatsapp messages on" bullshit.