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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI

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What do cybersecurity experts, journalists in foreign conflicts,
indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Drake have in common?
They all use the Signal messaging app. Signal’s protocol has been
the gold standard in end-to-end encryption, used by Whatsapp,
Google and more, for more than a decade. But it’s been under fire
from both authoritarian governments and well-meaning democracies
who see the privacy locks as a threat. Since 2022, former Google
rabble-rouser and AI Now Institute co-founder Meredith Whittaker
has been president of the Signal Foundation, the nonprofit that
runs the app. Kara talks with Meredith about her fight to protect
text privacy, the consolidation of power and money in AI and how
nonprofits can survive in a world built on the surveillance
economy. Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or
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