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Private messaging apps increasingly used for public business

Private messaging apps increasingly used for public business

5 years ago
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disappearing-messages-private-phones-test-open-records-laws-071201782.html

Whether communications on those platforms should be part of the public record is a growing but unsettled debate in states across the country. Updates to transparency laws lag behind rapid technological advances, and the public and private personas of state officials overlap on private smartphones and social media accounts.

"Those kind of technologies literally undermine, through the technology itself, state open government laws and policies," said Daniel Bevarly, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition. "And they come on top of the misuse of other technologies, like people using their own private email and cellphones to conduct business."