MPs and civil servants use self-deleting chat for routine communications, government admits

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Politicians and advisors can turn off history when using Google Workspace messaging, threatening transparency and accountability

Ministers in the UK can set their official messages to delete automatically after some time if there is no need to retain a record of communication, the government has told transparency campaigning...

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