Parliament’s email reminded lawmakers they should use “Parliament’s corporate solutions” Teams and Jabber when possible and only Signal if the two are unavailable.
“The use of Signal is proposed as a safe alternative in cases where no equivalent corporate tool is available,” the Parliament’s press service said in a statement, adding it couldn’t “comment further on security or cybersecurity measures or tools.”
In 2020, the European Commission gave a similar advice, telling its staff to switch to Signal for secure communications.
In 2023, several EU institutions also banned the use of Tiktok on work-related devices, requesting that its staff — numbering about 32,000 — remove the app from officials’ devices and their personal devices with work-related apps installed. The decision sparked a wave of similar measures across European capitals.
Signal’s application is favored by cybersecurity experts and privacy activists because of its end-to-end encryption and open-source technology.
