WhatsApp is an extremely popular messaging platform globally, but also in Romania, millions of people use it every day to communicate with various users in the country or abroad. Probably many of you have ignored the news from more than a week ago in which The Romanian police banned the use of WhatsApp by its employees for communications made in the interest of work, although many are active in it.
WhatsApp was banned for police officers in Romania because the application should not be used for non-public communications, as it is not secure, so there is also the fear that the messages sent will be intercepted. More than that, in WhatsApp messages can be re-sent by people very easily to other people, and in some of the groups where there were police officers there were also their spouses, maybe even a friend, and some saw non-public information.
WhatsApp: Romanian Police WARNING IGNORED by ALL Romanians
WhatsApp is still considered by the Romanian Police as not being secure enough for communications, and if you remember, a few months ago even the Minister of the Interior suggested "in a roundabout way" that communications are intercepted. The fact that WhatsApp is not secure and that its communications are not even that encrypted is not exactly new news, as everyone knows that Facebook does not want to encrypt the application as it should, even though it says it does so.
WhatsApp is an application used by many people, but the problems regarding the interception of communications only apply to those who either have something to hide or transmit non-public information. However, since the Romanian Police does not recommend its employees to use WhatsApp to communicate information that can greatly help them in their missions, this situation must be looked at very carefully.
WhatsApp is not as good as Telegram, or Signal, for securing conversations, and if you care about this, you should stop using it.