WhatsApp used at work? This could get expensive

This chat was expensive: Bank employees had to pay a hefty fine because they used WhatsApp at work. It ranges from a few thousand US dollars and goes up to 1 million US dollars. There is a legal regulation behind it.

A number with 8 zeros: Last year, the US authority SEC imposed high fines on several banks. The financial institutions had to pay 200 million US dollars. The reason for the punishment: Employees are said to have used messengers like WhatsApp for official business communication. But that is not allowed. The US Bank Morning Stanley now passes the fine on to the employees concerned.

WhatsApp used at work: Bank passes fine on to employees

According to information from the Financial Times, bank employees have to pay hefty fines (source: Financial Times). Couches between several thousand US dollars and can on up to $1 million to go up. Remarkable: How high the respective fines are made by the bank scoring system addicted. Factors such as employee seniority or the number of messages sent play a role, as does previous warnings.

In the US, financial companies such as banks are required to archive their business communications (source: golem). If employees use encrypted messengers like WhatsApp, this is no longer possible.

In addition to WhatsApp, there are other interesting messengers:

WhatsApp will allow photos to be sent in original quality in the future

Big changes are coming to WhatsApp itself. In a future update, the popular messenger should finally allow photos to be sent in their original quality. So far, sent images have been compressed in three quality levels: automatic, best quality and save data. WhatsApp thus fulfills a great wish of its users.

However, the new voice status, which allows WhatsApp users to include voice messages in their status, is already available.