Meredith Whittaker

Because of the huge breadth of data AI agents like Muse are ingesting, this also means that users risk leaking not only their own sensitive information, but the information of everyone else they’ve had digital contact with. www.theverge.com/tech/1011938...

"These stories effectively ask us to defer to these systems, the same way attributing godlike qualities to your local bishop underwrites social control, and a lot of abuse that is very difficult to check." @meredithmeredith.bsky.social a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

NEW: Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging it used Facebook and Insta photos to build its NameTag face-recognition system and train AI models without consent. WIRED found code for NameTag hidden inside Meta’s AI app downloaded by tens of millions. Meta said the feature “doesn’t exist.”

Appreciating @ciaranm.bsky.social's grounded, pithy rundown of the ghost stories, catastrophizing, and novice security practices dubiously shaping the current cybersecurity + AI landscape 🙏👇 ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/fud-tier-ai

Yes we all think this is stupid but we, the ppl brushing our teeth, are not the customers The customers are the investors who in ~1yr will be enticed to fund Dyson's smart dental AI spinoff, featuring models trained on "the world's largest real time floss dataset" gizmodo.com/dysons-smart...

Perimenopause is *so* hot right now. Read @knibbs.bsky.social on the VC-backed, telehealth push to put millions of women on hormones--whether they need them or not:

Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

Make illegal now thank you

Perhaps this deserve a less esoteric introduction. Weaving memoir with an analysis of technology, automated decision systems and AI more broadly. This is something between a love letter and quarterly report on where Logic(s) has been and where it’s going.

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“This is not a matter of a few people engaging in aberrant behavior,” @evacide.bsky.social told @19thnews.org of police abusing Flock ALPRs to stalk people. “These are just the people who have gotten caught, and who have gotten caught so blatantly that they have experienced consequences.”

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“A fundamental shift is needed in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents,” argues Meredith Whittaker. “Basic lessons in privacy and digital security are being discarded,” she warns

This is good, necessary, common sense" www.banfacialrecognition.com/venues/

The Hugging Face incident was “both notable and alarming,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfexaminer.bsky.social, “not because ‘ooh, the model’s so powerful,’ but because it demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of OpenAI to secure the sandbox in which it was testing its model.”

From @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is spot-on: “The extent of the tech industry’s influence over the AI research domain has parallels in the U.S. military’s dominance over scientific research during the Cold War. Tech firms are drawing from a similar playbook.” dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I blogged about last week’s viral video of the pervert on the Scottish train filming some quiet teenage girls, and why it matters for the debate on young people and smartphones. I didn’t share it anywhere, but it’s top of Hacker News. This happens to me a lot. heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/t...

In which I speak at length with the inimitable @meredithmeredith.bsky.social for the @futurologypod.bsky.social podcast. As always, Meredith had strong, precise things to say about the ongoing digital erosion of privacy — and how AI is accelerating that erosion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVe...

AI is not your friend @meredithmeredith.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/s...

"I also struggle with the persistent focus on privacy as the purported barrier to solving these issues, when we have most of the Epstein list walking around without consequences."

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

🇨🇦's #BillC22 is entering committee study this week - and we're hearing it may become law by end of the month. We never say this: but this is the worst, most privacy-breaking bill we've seen. It MUST be stopped. Speak up against it and read on to learn more: www.openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky 1/

We often think of authoritarianism as lawless. But it can operate through law itself. What does it mean for democracy when that happens? ⬇️ DROPS TOMORROW: Lawyering Without Law, a new biweekly podcast from the Knight First Amendment Institute. Available on all platforms.

For TechCrunch, I wrote about the landmark Chatrie privacy case before the U.S. Supreme Court that examines the legality of "geofence" search warrants. The case could redefine digital privacy rights for people across the U.S. if cops are limited from mass-searching the databases of tech giants.

A response to recent reporting in Germany, in service of clarity and accountability: First, it’s important to be precise when it comes to critical infrastructure like Signal. Signal was not “hacked” — in that our encryption, infrastructure, & the integrity of the app’s code was not compromised. 1/

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

The New York Times is right. I don’t care! (And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)

"There are few things that many engineers I've worked with hate more than having to maintain someone else's shitty code." - Meredith Whittaker

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7

« Essayer, c’est toujours être mauvais au début. » À l'occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes, Meredith Whittaker, présidente de la messagerie Signal, encourage les jeunes filles à oser et à croire en leurs capacités, notamment en sciences et en maths.