Power deserves scrutiny. Politicians should have less privacy than the average person.
I have, however, heard that apps like Signal has become more common among politicians, but using it for official business is still illegal.
Is it really enforacble? What are the sanctions for breaking the law?
What if someone says it's a national secuirty matter?
Scenario nr 1: You are a misiter and you are discussing possible scenarios about a given event (let say something like an abortion). Should pulbic have full access to it?
Scenario nr 2: You are a minister and you are negotiating a new factory in your country. Foregin corporation wants to keep it secret before the deal is reached. How can you communicate?
If politians would be given a device from the deep state to handle all communication then they would have to use is exculsivly, you are givin the deep state an enormous power.
Foreign corporation wants to do X but X is banned in country.
We don't accept that for minimum wages, discrimination laws, pollution laws, etc. Why should communication laws be any different?
Imagine a public corporation that wants to build a factory, but wants to keep to secret for now, cause they don't want the competition to know or affect the share price.
The law is available in Norwegian here, if you want to run it trough a machine translation service and have a look: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/nou-2003-30/id38285...