{"id":15606,"date":"2026-02-03T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=15606"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:47:32","slug":"signals-whittaker-on-privacy-in-the-age-of-data-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/signals-whittaker-on-privacy-in-the-age-of-data-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal&#8217;s Whittaker on Privacy in the Age of Data and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>She starts this off with a lie, as they have the metadata, which is more valuable than the actual communications. As most tie a phone number to their account, they know who is using it, and if not by phone number probably IP address. And this <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/ai-security-warning-from-signal-apps-meredith-whittaker-the-hidden-dangers-of-agentic-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woman has got to be a spook<\/a>. And the laugh tell after she says she has the luxury of being honest speaks volumes. Was her slip of &#8220;we have so much signal&#8221; while talking about surveillance also a slip? She made an effort to re-address it as data. Another hilarious observation as she has a history in AI research, when she occasionally uses AI for research she checks sources as they&#8217;re inherently inaccurate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Signal&#039;s Whittaker on Privacy in the Age of Data and AI\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-CHfHA5ptaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She starts this off with a lie, as they have the metadata, which is more valuable than the actual communications. As most tie a phone number to their account, they know who is using it, and if not by phone number probably IP address. And this woman has got to be a spook. And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15607,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions\/15607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}