“The restrictions will help eliminate the possibility of leakage of confidential information.” Authorities ban teachers from using WhatsApp

The Ministry of Education has banned teachers from using WhatsApp and other foreign messengers in the educational process or in the workplace. Writes about this "Kommersant".

According to the publication, instead of the messenger owned by the Meta company, which has been declared extremist in Russia, teachers are recommended to switch to using VK Messenger.

In some regions, teachers were required to give up not only WhatsApp, but also many other popular Western messengers. So, the Ministry of Education of the Nizhny Novgorod Region reported that school employees were advised to stop using foreign services at their workplaces - WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, Google Drive and others, since "restrictions will help eliminate the possibility of leakage of confidential information."

“To exclude the possibility of using foreign Internet services” in the Nizhny Novgorod region, teachers also demand from parents. In the Amur region, teachers create Telegram groups for parents, although sometimes the latter continue to chat on WhatsApp.

As Kommersant writes, the Ministry of Education confirmed the distribution of recommendations not to use foreign messengers, but emphasized that they relate exclusively to working with the state system My School and its components. The department claims that they do not regulate the scope and channels of communication between parents.

Source: Kommersant

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