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"[AI agents] are threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer." Signal President Meredith Whittaker (Meredith Whittaker) warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype. To be "magic genie bots" (concert booking etc.), they need root access to

"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President Meredith Whittaker in Financial Times on the war on encryption. ft.com/content/a93415…

I wouldn’t say that Will and I are battling but I do disagree. Because there are big differences between Signal and WhatsApp. Signal is the gold standard in private comms. We’re open source, nonprofit, and we develop and apply e2ee and privacy preserving tech across our system

TL;DR: On WhatsApp, your Metadata is Meta's data 😅

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. One piece of misinfo we need to address is the

When something goes awry, who's to blame – the platform or the user? Signal's Meredith Whittaker joined Rapid Response host Robert Safian on the Masters of Scale Summit stage last October to discuss privacy, trust, and digital surveillance. Watch more: youtube.com/watch?v=gDmwxu…

Apparently word is that a cryptography professor at Indiana had his house raided and was arrested by the FBI. heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/loc…

What’s going on here? 👀 Privacy researcher focused on secure enclaves has vanished. As Matthew Green is on BlueSky said: it’ll be framed as “espionage” or “fraud”—but being fired, scrubbed from IU, and now missing points to something deeply wrong with the legal and civil process.

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop. Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats. signal.org/blog/signal-do…

📣 The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying. Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.

AI integrations by major tech players will continue to eat your privacy even if you don't actively surrender your data to LLMs what's scary about this case w/ Recall is Signal had to create a specific deployment to stop microsoft. most apps won't care enough to offer that

Tomorrow, Thursday May 29, Nuits sonores, Lyon France! I'm coming dance, I'm coming to party, I'm coming to eat, but first I'm sitting down to talk about tech, privacy, Signal, and what it takes to make a world worth living in ❤️

Dans le cadre des Nuits Sonores Lab à Lyon, Meredith Whittaker Meredith Whittaker, présidente de la fondation Signal l’application de messagerie cryptée reconnue pour sa protection des données personnelles, a partagé sa vision sur la souveraineté numérique, les dérives de la

Meredith Whittaker Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal Breaks Down Why Online Privacy Matters More Than Ever: “Data about you, about your location, about what you say about your friends, your family, your contacts, your work can all be used to harm or control you.” This isn’t just

Dinsdag 1 juli komt Meredith Whittaker, president van Signal Foundation en vooraanstaand techcriticus naar Rotterdam. Ze spreekt over encryptie, surveillance en AI - en hoe we samen een betere tech-toekomst kunnen bouwen. Bij De Dépendance in Theater Rotterdam. Info en tickets

🏆 Big congrats to the #NextcloudAwards winners! 🔷 Schleswig-Holstein won the Implementation Role Model Award 🔷 Signal Foundation and CódigoSur won the Award for Digital Sovereignty Awareness Thank you for working relentlessly on #DigitalSovereignty 💙

A delight! Such a warm and intelligent audience, #FOS25 has been incredible to work with and attend, and Matteo G.P. Flora asked some of the most thoughtful and informed questions I can remember. Thank you 😌❤️

Why online #privacy is vital: Meredith Whittaker , messaging app Signal’s president, highlighted how a handful of #BigTech companies collect vast amounts of information. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9wDx…

A year ago Meredith Whittaker told the story of the tech ecosystem grounded in the surveillance business model: youtu.be/AdRD6K4RGwI?si…