Meredith Whittaker

A year ago @mer__edith told the story of the tech ecosystem grounded in the surveillance business model: youtu.be/AdRD6K4RGwI?si…

Yes, I did sound the alarm on agentic AI's privacy threat, and rightly so. observer.com/2025/07/signal…

So happy to be joining Burda Media's board! I love a steep learning curve, and this one--schooling up on media business models & opportunities to (re)shape media's relationship to tech--couldn't be more exciting & consequential. Thrilled to contribute ❤️ burda.com/en/news/meredi…

Once again, Meredith Whittaker from Signal keeps the focus on the key points. Way to go, Meredith! @mer__edith time.com/collections/ti…

How to be classy, how to be cute, how to actually walk the walk... Love you for this @Cloudflare ❤️ nytimes.com/2025/07/01/tec…

“Ensuring [privacy] in a world where the authority to know us has been ceded to private actors who may or may not cooperate w/one or another regime, who may choose to use that data to manipulate or to harm us or to exclude us from access to resources, is existentially important.”

A big humble thank you to @time and #BillyPerigo for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️ time.com/collections/ti…

"[AI agents] are threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer." Signal President Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype. To be "magic genie bots" (concert booking etc.), they need root access to…

I'm in #FAccT2025 next week. Psyched for my first @FAccTConference. HMU if you want to meet. We'll be presenting our paper "Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI" with Sasha Luccioni and @mer__edith arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, no surveillance ads—whatever the rest of the industry does. We lead we don’t follow❤️

Why online #privacy is vital: @mer__edith , messaging app Signal’s president, highlighted how a handful of #BigTech companies collect vast amounts of information. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9wDx…

A delight! Such a warm and intelligent audience, #FOS25 has been incredible to work with and attend, and @lastknight asked some of the most thoughtful and informed questions I can remember. Thank you 😌❤️

🏆 Big congrats to the #NextcloudAwards winners! 🔷 Schleswig-Holstein won the Implementation Role Model Award 🔷 Signal Foundation and CódigoSur won the Award for Digital Sovereignty Awareness Thank you for working relentlessly on #DigitalSovereignty 💙

Dinsdag 1 juli komt Meredith Whittaker, president van Signal Foundation en vooraanstaand techcriticus naar Rotterdam. Ze spreekt over encryptie, surveillance en AI - en hoe we samen een betere tech-toekomst kunnen bouwen. Bij @dedependance in Theater Rotterdam. Info en tickets…

Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith, President of Signal Breaks Down Why Online Privacy Matters More Than Ever: “Data about you, about your location, about what you say about your friends, your family, your contacts, your work can all be used to harm or control you.” This isn’t just…

Dans le cadre des Nuits Sonores Lab à Lyon, @mer__edith Meredith Whittaker, présidente de la fondation @signalapp l’application de messagerie cryptée reconnue pour sa protection des données personnelles, a partagé sa vision sur la souveraineté numérique, les dérives de la…

Tomorrow, Thursday May 29, Nuits sonores, Lyon France! I'm coming dance, I'm coming to party, I'm coming to eat, but first I'm sitting down to talk about tech, privacy, Signal, and what it takes to make a world worth living in ❤️