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Meredith Whittaker
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
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President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
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heidykhlaaf.bsky.social
From our paper (w/ @smw.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) in 2024:
Constraining the flow of sensitive and personal data from citizens that can enable them to be targeted by adversaries using AI systems is in the national interest. To be effective, such constraints may also need to extend to models trained on this data. The US’s Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data, has already considered explicit restrictions on the transfer and export of personal data [28]. However, commercially available models trained on such data can enable the insights derived from personal data to be utilized for military capabilities (e.g., targeting) even where the data itself is restricted from sale. To be effective, restrictions placed on personal data flows would also need to be extended to models trained on that data. (5) Using foundation models in national security contexts may introduce unique concerns threatening human rights. For example, a government’s ability to train models on citizens’ data obtained through commercial data brokers that would otherwise need a warrant, court order, or subpoena to obtain may allow governments to further exercise coercive powers that are automated through AI decision-making [6]. Such use may subvert due process, exacerbated when inaccurate outputs inflict unjust harms on civilians. Appropriate interventions may include the extension of data minimization principles to include purpose limitations on the collection, processing, and transfer of personal data to third parties for intelligence purposes [6].
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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james3neal.bsky.social
"AI Agent, AI Spy" ... "...review the immediate and serious danger that the rush to shove agents into our devices and digital lives poses to our fundamental right to privacy and our capacity for genuine personal agency." @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @ccc.de Udbhav Tiwari youtu.be/0ANECpNdt-4?...
39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy
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January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Welcome to Signal, we love to have you <3

Bienvenido a Signal, nos alegra que estés aquí. <3

www.elespanol.com/omicrono/sof...
Signal, el 'WhatsApp' centrado en la privacidad, dispara sus descargas en Europa por la inestabilidad política actual
La situación geopolítica promovida por las amenazas de Donald Trump sobre Groenlandia y el poder de las tecnológicas han causado este auge. Más información: Cierra TeleMessage, la aplicación que copia...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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alexis8.bsky.social
I just renewed my subscription with @wired.com! Their work is amazing!!!
katie-drummond.bsky.social Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 5d
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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signal.org
Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm.

We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates.

support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...
Staying Safe from Phishing, Scams, and Impersonation
We provide a privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging and calling platform designed so only you and your intended recipients can communicate securely. Even with strong encryption, attac...
support.signal.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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vprotegenlicht.bsky.social
Minder privacy betekent voor bigtechbedrijven vooral: meer data roven waarmee winst gemaakt kan worden. Wat Meredith Whittaker betreft, worden marketingpraat, mythes over superintelligentie en vage privacy-beloften veel te weinig bevraagd. 'Privacy washing in deze branche komt veel voor.'
January 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Could the secret police PLEASE use silencers when they shoot civilians for backtalk all this noise is disturbing my vibe coding
A twitter post from some crypto guy named @mert that says "bro how do i mute all political posts on this app holy hell it has turned into reddit"
January 26, 2026 at 11:20 AM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Freedom is when I don’t have to pay taxes and people who exercise their constitutional rights are beaten, shoved into camps, and shot in the back or the face by masked agents of the state
January 26, 2026 at 10:54 AM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Always interesting to listen to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Finally the Dutch citizens get to have a splendid interview to get to know her and her warnings about (non)privacy. youtube.com/watch?v=54jI...
Dit zijn de winnaars en verliezers van de grote dataroof volgens Signal-baas Meredith Whittaker
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January 22, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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aboutsignal.com
New video about Signal📽️

Signal's President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social with @emilychang.bsky.social on @bloomberg.com about privacy in the age of data and AI

Watch it here 🍿👉 aboutsignal.com/videos-podca...

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #AI #privacy
Signal's Whittaker on privacy in the age of data and AI - AboutSignal.com
Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang, exploring the future of security, digital rights, and the increasing vulnerability of personal privacy in t...
aboutsignal.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
We love to see it!

Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️

github.com/zoicware/Rem...
GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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dickkalkman.bsky.social
Interview met @meredithmeredith.bsky.social door Karin Swiers.
mtsprout.nl/leiderschap/...
Ze leidde ooit het verzet bij Google, nu daagt Meredith Whittaker big tech uit met Signal
Meredith Whittaker staat al lang op de barricades tegen big tech. Dankzij Signal, waar ze president van is, groeit haar aanhang nu explosief.
mtsprout.nl
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Eve Sedgewick said "what I'm proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart" and I'm going to wear this like a locket
January 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Interesting 1987 NYT book review of Klaus Theweleit's *Male Fantasies* "a study of the imaginative world of the German Freikorps movement."

www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/b...
Screenshot of a paragraph from the linked book review, which reads: "His central contention is that the Freikorps soldiers were afraid of women. Indeed, not just afraid, they were deeply hostile to them, and their ultimate goal was to murder them. Women, in their view, came in only two varieties: Red and White. The White woman was the nurse, the mother, the sister. She was distinguished above all else by her sexlessness. The Red woman, on the other hand, was a whore and a Communist. She was a kind of distillation of sexuality, threatening to engulf the male in a whirlpool of bodily and emotional ecstasy. This, of course, was the woman the Freikorps soldier wished to kill, because she endangered his identity, his sense of self as a fixed and bounded being. In this manner Mr. Theweleit links the Freikorps soldiers' fantasies of women to their practical life as illegal anti-Communist guerillas: the Republic had to be destroyed because it empowered the lascivious Red woman, while it failed to protect the White woman's sexual purity."
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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ainowinstitute.bsky.social
Trump’s rush to fast-track new nuclear reactors raises serious safety concerns. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social to @npr.org: "These manufactured timelines are incredibly concerning. There's no timeline for assessing a new design and making sure it's safe."

Read more in @npr.org: shorturl.at/y78eg
Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra

We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...
39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy
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January 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
The hill I will invite the market to join me in dying on is that it's called a face card, not a big plastic thing on your face card, for a reason
Screenshot of a quote tweet of Tim Cook, from 2024. Tim's tweet says "The era of spatial computing has arrived! Apple Vision Pro is availble in the US on February 2. My quote tweet says, "The thing is,,, no one wants a plastic box on their face" Screenshot of an FT article from early 2026, headline says "Apple cuts Vision Pro production and marketing after weak sales"
January 8, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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sfsutcliffe.bsky.social
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''In my view, the velvet glove coup we are witnessing today represents a critical inflection point in the history of computing..'' @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...
#surveillance #tech #complexity #AI #security #futurescapes
39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy
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January 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra

We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...
39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy
YouTube video by media.ccc.de
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
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signal.org Signal @signal.org · Dec 30
It's been a big year at Signal. Thanks to you, more & more people are speaking privately and freely. Thanks to you, we hit the top of app stores in multiple countries & served as critical global comms infrastructure. It's an honor to build Signal for you, with your support. 🩵
December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.
December 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
“They will fear her,” Tenar whispered.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM