At the time, there was speculation that the switch was done in order to take advantage of Signal’s disappearing messages feature to stop leaks like those the party saw while using WhatsApp. Last December, The Guardian reported that the UK’s ruling party, the Conservatives, told its MPs to switch to the service from WhatsApp. The European Commission is not the only governmental body to tell its staff to switch to Signal. Later that year, The New York Times reported that the EU’s diplomatic communications network had been hacked over the course of a three-year period in a display of the “remarkably poor protection” given to official communications. In June 2018, BuzzFeed News reported that the European Union’s embassy in Moscow had been hacked and had information stolen from its network. The initiative comes as the EU is attempting to lock down the security of its communications in the wake of high-profile hacks. The UK’s Conservative party also recently switched to the service
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