Although the officials themselves do not think it will cause a lot of changes, lawyers think it can do so.
“This decision could encourage European elected representatives and officials to prefer oral exchanges to SMS,” said Vincent Couronne, European law researcher at the University of Paris-Saclay. “In today’s commercial communications ecosystem, the border between SMS, E-mail, Whatsapp, Slack and Similar has become very thin.”
‘Useless Buckpigs’
Thus, although the decision can eliminate certain European diplomats from their damage to takeoff of misfortune, all that it does is to put the EU online with the rules of transparency of many countries.
In the United Kingdom, for example, an inquiry cocoked in 2023 heard how former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, was a Whit Whats -PS enthusiasts, and described members of the cabinet as “unnecessary Buckpigs” in messages during the pandemic.
Managers of the cunning commission could still follow the example of former Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who said that his WhatsApp should not be combed because the messages had been deleted.
Indeed, an official for the previous British government said About half of the hood then used a disappeared message function, which deletes conversations after a defined period, unless one or the other participant chooses to keep them.