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.

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

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.

New video about Signal📽️ Signal's President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social with @profgalloway.com: Is AI a threat to privacy? How Signal works, the risks of AI for privacy and more! Watch it here 🍿👉 aboutsignal.com/videos-podca... #signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #AI #privacy

'15-plus years after her death at the age of 54, Teena Marie is remembered as an important contributor to R&B and Soul music, who against all logic sustained a 30-year-plus singing career with an overwhelmingly Black audience base.' medium.com/p/1631ae97989a #BlackSkyOver50

Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Why your prompts could be subpoenaed. My conversation with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, out today. links.profgmedia.com/4ucFCOy

Was die KI über Sie weiß, kann gegen Sie verwendet werden, warnt die prominente KI-Expertin Meredith Whittaker. Und fordert: Stoppt die leichtsinnigen Anwendungen!

Bonjour mes amis français ♥️ www.lepoint.fr/economie/sig...

Grateful to the journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Society for asking me to review Jeffrey Ding's excellent new book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers. I use it to discuss AI development not as an inter-national scientific 'race,' but an intra-national financial struggle.

Lecture streaming here tomorrow at 9:00am CET www.iaseai.org/schedule-2026

“We should be questioning how power formed in a way that enabled a handful of people—in service of their quarterly returns—to make socially significant decisions on behalf of everyone else, without scrutability, without clarity, and without democratic oversight.” - @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

> Half of tech is just running around praying to a sky god that lives on an nvidia chip > a bunch of people who have no idea about tech, but are pretending to have an idea about tech … and a bunch of septuagenarian CEOs are taking their word for it — it’s almost an elder abuse issue going on

Spoke with @davidenrich.bsky.social and @greenwell.bsky.social about current threats to press freedom and what ought to be done about them. Thanks to @columjournreview.bsky.social for hosting, and to all of the audience members who asked such great questions. www.cjr.org/kicker/the-l...

Very excited about this new @knightcolumbia.org project, both because it gives us the chance to look beyond the current democratic crisis and because so many super people have already agreed to participate. knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

“If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational — collecting tuition and protecting endowments — they are mistaken… presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms.”

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Ici, je parle de Signal, de la protection de la vie privée, de Foucault et du modèle économique de la surveillance – pour mes amis français, avec toute mon affection ❤️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Ici : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

"These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century."

À demain mes chers amis <3

There's the Epstein list. But I also want the crisis comms agencies and boutique law firms helping these invertebrates weasel out of culpability list.

From our paper (w/ @smw.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) in 2024:

"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?...

Welcome to Signal, we love to have you <3 Bienvenido a Signal, nos alegra que estés aquí. <3 www.elespanol.com/omicrono/sof...

I just renewed my subscription with @wired.com! Their work is amazing!!!

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...

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.'

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.

Could the secret police PLEASE use silencers when they shoot civilians for backtalk all this noise is disturbing my vibe coding

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

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

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

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...

Interview met @meredithmeredith.bsky.social door Karin Swiers. mtsprout.nl/leiderschap/...

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

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...

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

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-...

📣 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...