PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's Senate President Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Saturday (Sept 28) urged the government, state ministries, local authorities, armed forces and the public to use homegrown CoolApp to secure national security and personal data.
"Due to many reports about the leak of personal data in Telegram in some countries, I'm concerned about the national security and the safety of personal data of each individual," he said in a post on his official social media.
"With this concern, I propose the royal government to set up CoolApp groups for the government, national institutions, sub-national institutions, and all kinds of armed force entities instead of Telegram groups," he added.
Other institutions such as the Senate, the National Assembly, and the courts should also create CoolApp groups, Hun Sen said, adding that civil servants, armed forces and people should also use CoolApp.
"This is not a coercion to use CoolApp, but a reminder to safeguard national security and personal data, as CoolApp belongs to Cambodia," he said.
Launched in June, CoolApp is Cambodia's first chat app and social network built to foreign standards such as Telegram or WhatsApp and it is available in the iOS App Store and Google's Play Store.
CoolApp can be used across the world like any other communication systems, but it does not allow foreigners to access public or private data, he said, adding that currently, the number of CoolApp users has climbed to 300,000.
Hun Sen said CoolApp uses the most confidential system, the Encryption system, in which others cannot view or read individual's messages, not even CoolApp itself.
"Cambodia having CoolApp is the pride of the Cambodian people because among all member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), only Vietnam and Cambodia have their own social media apps," he said. - Xinhua
