Swiss Army bans Whatsapp
Army members will use the Swiss messaging app Threema in the future. All other short message services are no longer allowed – for security reasons.
Army members are no longer allowed to send photos, texts and voice messages via Whatsapp, Telegram or Signal.
Foto: Laurent Gilliéron (Keystone)
In the army it is now called: Threema for everyone – Threema pour tous – Threema per tutti. At the end of December, the Army staff emailed all commanders and chiefs of staff to this subject Messenger-From now on, the Threema app will be used for business communication with private smartphones.
In the letter that this newspaper has, it says: «All other services are no longer permitted.“So the army forbids in future their relatives, each other via Whatsapp, to exchange signals or telegrams and to disseminate official instructions via these channels.