Meredith Whittaker

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President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute

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if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."

what i am saying is "don't say dumb things on the public internet that could theoretically be used to give authorities an excuse to fuck with you"

It's true, us bitches do

All us bitches need Signal

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"‘You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop’: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moves" @meredithmeredith.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

‘You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop’: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moveswww.theguardian.com A ‘legitimate grievance’ with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says

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Statement @meredithmeredith.bsky.social: The new EU #ChatControl proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it backdoor, front door or “upload moderation”: it undermines encryption and creates significant vulnerabilities. signal.org/blog/pdfs/up...

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Spoke to Signal president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social about governments using the backlash against Meta etc as a pretext to try to bring in mass surveillance www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

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“It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to train these models…So there is deep pressure from companies — that are basically promising God and delivering email prompts — to make some return on investment in this technology."

Signal's Meredith Whittaker sees AI as another big data grabwww.axios.com The "surveillance business model" is using AI to expand its reach, the privacy expert says.

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Årets prisvinner av Helmut Schmidts Fremtidspris er Meredith Whittaker, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, leder av @signal.bsky.social. Attac Norge har fått lov å publisere takketalen hennes på norsk.

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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social on #Nostr about the EU's next attempt at #ChatControl.

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Meredith Whittaker, présidente de Signal : « L’IA concentre le pouvoir dans les mains des géants de la tech » https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/05/23/meredith-whittaker-presidente-de-signal-l-ia-concentre-le-pouvoir-dans-les-mains-des-geants-de-la-tech_6235109_4408996.html

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"The current AI craze is a result of this toxic surveillance business model. It is not due to novel scientific approaches that…fundamentally shifted a paradigm." @meredithmeredith.bsky.social: www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/de...

Die Rede der Zukunftspreisträgerinwww.helmut-schmidt.de Meredith Whittaker warnt in ihrer Rede vor der Macht der Techindustrie und erklärt, warum es sich gerade jetzt lohnt, positiv zu denken.

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catching up on this interview with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social feels timely considering how my yesterday went techcrunch.com/2024/05/24/s...

Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the 'edge lords' at OpenAI | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Among other things, Whittaker is concerned about the concentration of power in the five main social media platforms.

"I don’t think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized our media ecosystem and our information ecosystem in service of profit and growth for a handful of companies." goddam right

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Signal’s @meredithmeredith.bsky.social with an excellent response to tech bros complaining that regulation impedes innovation. techcrunch.com/2024/05/24/s...

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Dans Next, ce matin, on parle intelligence artificielle, surveillance de masse et lutte pour la protection de la vie privée avec @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, présidente de @signal.bsky.social et co-fondatrice de l'AI Now Institute : next.ink/138390/mered...

Meredith Whittaker (Signal) : « L’IA est un outil des puissants contre ceux qui ont moins de pouvoir » - Nextnext.ink Next s'est entretenu avec la présidente de la fondation Signal, co-fondatrice de l’AI Now Institute et ancienne de Google Meredith Whittaker.

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Last week I had the honor of accepting the 2024 Helmut Schmidt Future Prize Instead of a traditional speech, I gave this talk on the history of AI, the business of surveillance, & why the use of AI "ad targeting for killing" in Gaza should be illegal👇 www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/de...

Die Rede der Zukunftspreisträgerinwww.helmut-schmidt.de Meredith Whittaker warnt in ihrer Rede vor der Macht der Techindustrie und erklärt, warum es sich gerade jetzt lohnt, positiv zu denken.

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RT @meredithmeredith.bsky.social from the bad place:

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Great podcast interview from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social with @fm4.bsky.social on privacy, AI and race between the U.S. and China for supremacy in artificial intelligence 👍👍👍 sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/...

ORF Soundsound.orf.at ORF Sound ist das digitale Audio-Angebot des ORF. Alle öffentlich-rechtlichen Radiosender Österreichs live und die besten Inhalte kuratiert, 30 Tage on Demand.

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„Signal“ Chefin @meredithmeredith.bsky.social sieht in der vom Innenministerium geforderten Messengerüberwachung klar eine Massengefährdung und warnt 🇦🇹 Behörden: Öffnen wir Systeme von Handys, Computern & Co für Regierungen, stehen sie auch Terroristen offen #Bundestrojaner on.orf.at/video/142259...

"Signal"-Chefin warnt vor Überwachung - ZIB 2 vom 12.05.2024on.orf.at Meredith Whittaker, die Präsidentin der Signal Foundation, spricht über die Pläne des Innenministeriums zur Messengerüberwachung und äußert Kritik am KI-Hype. Hinweis der Redaktion: Die Langfassung d...

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Let's clear some stuff up about these Signal rumors, some of which are coming from the CEO of Telegram.🙄@matthewdgreen.bsky.social did a good extensive thread about it on Xitter. #CyberSecurity @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @0x0.boo twitter.com/matthew_d_gr...

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A very interesting interview (austria TV) with Signal Messengers president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social Also, there is always the danger for sensitive data to be stolen by insiders in security agencies and fall into the wrong hands. Either we have good encryption or none at all.

Sehr interessantes Interview mit der Chefin des Signal-Messengers: on.orf.at/video/142262...

"ZIB 2"-Langfassung: "Signal"-Chefin zu Messenger-Überwachungon.orf.at Meredith Whittaker, die Präsidentin der Signal Foundation, spricht über die Pläne des Innenministeriums zur Messengerüberwachung und äußert Kritik am KI-Hype.

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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social does a great job in explaining Signal's position as it relates to the Austrian's govt's demand for more monitoring, and why the concept is dangerous for everyone, even the govt asking for it. Her take on "big tech" and AI is 😗🤌 as well. #Österreich #signal #Austria

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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social great interview in the weekly @falter.at ! www.falter.at/zeitung/2024...

„Signal“-Chefin Meredith Whittaker: Die Frau, die Big Tech entmachten willwww.falter.at Tech-Rebellin fordert im FALTER-Interview ein Recht auf private Kommunikation im Internet: „Verschlüsselung funktioniert entweder für alle oder für niemanden.“

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Must read essay by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social “In light of the existing concentration of military & financial power in the United States, handing the country even more “control” over all relevant social media platforms is not something we should reflexively embrace…” bit.ly/44rXyIo

Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Isbit.ly Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…

It is I!

Wait is @meredithmeredith.bsky.social the same Meredith Whittaker who wrote the amazing paper Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control ??? If so then hella based logicmag.io/supa-dupa-sk...

Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Controllogicmag.io The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.

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"What problem does this actually solve? The issue is not necessarily the tech, it’s how the structures that create it are shaped, the corporations and the governments that have the ability to determine who it serves and who it subjects" @meredithmeredith.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...

Why Is This Happening? Unpacking this moment in tech with Meredith Whittaker: podcast and transcriptwww.msnbc.com Chris Hayes speaks with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal App, about her views on the tech landscape.

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This conversation about AI between @chrislhayes.bsky.social & @meredithmeredith.bsky.social was great. open.spotify.com/episode/2yZd...

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www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r... We Need to Rewild the Internet. @jay.bsky.team @meredithmeredith.bsky.social (who will surely read this anyways)

We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMAwww.noemamag.com The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

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If you work at Google or any of the other tech companies providing material support to the IOF, you should consider to what degree that makes you complicit. And you should think about what actions you can take to throw a wrench into the war machine. We should all be thinking about this.

There is almost no way the large cloud companies providing massive compute services AI surveillance & data processing APIs aren't implicated in the system of 'ad targeting for death' being used to facilitate mass murder in Gaza. time.com/6966102/goog...

Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministrytime.com Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza.

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Will be talking about this in the context of "The Gospel" both this coming Tuesday at Analytics Frontiers, and the 22nd at Emory's Candler School of Theology

Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministrytime.com Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza.