Disappearing WhatsApp messages will be a problem for future historians
British politicians have been told to set their WhatsApp messages to auto-delete to prevent them being spied upon. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty ImagesSet your WhatsApp messages to auto-delete: foreign spies might be reading them. That’s the advice that GCHQ, the UK’s signals intelligence agency, has given politicians after the British government publicly blamed China for two cyber campaigns against legislators and the country’s electoral watchdog.
Almost anyone whose career has lasted longer than a decade will have seen at least part of their work scrubbed from the internet whether by accident or design The ephemeral nature of the public internet is mirrored by the fragility of digital record-keeping. The information collected by the BBC Domesday Project, an ambitious undertaking to mark the original Domesday Book’s 900th anniversary back in 1986, is now essentially inaccessible because the technology used is obsolete.
Digital technology has proved a fantastic tool for the sharing of information. But it is much less effective when it comes to the preservation of information
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