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etreias.bsky.social @etreias.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Dear Americans, Europe is NOT a country. #GoReadBooks

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Signal Secure Backups are here 🙌

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The Economist @economist.com · 13/09/2025

“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

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AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker

The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

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The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app.

Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

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Piratenpartij Nederland @piratenpartij.nl · 06/09/2025

Goede video van de NOS over de orwelliaanse chatcontrole-plannen van de EU. Deze plannen zijn al meerdere keren weggestemd, maar nu dreigt er een meerderheid voor te ontstaan. #chatcontrole #stopchatcontrole #BigBrother #Orwell #briefgeheim #privacy #TK2025

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Scant de EU straks jouw berichten?

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Piratenpartij Nederland @piratenpartij.nl · 05/09/2025

Wij zien al lang dat "The War On Drugs" niet werkt, maar Trump voert die steeds verder op en stuurt nu zelfs #F35's naar de Puerto Rico. nos.nl/artikel/2581... wiki.piratenpartij.nl/tk2025:parti... #StemPiraat

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VS voert druk in Caribisch gebied verder op door gevechtsvliegtuigen te sturen

De F-35's worden ingezet bij een militaire operatie tegen drugskartels die volgens president Trump grote hoeveelheden drugs naar de VS smokkelen.

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Piratenpartij Nederland @piratenpartij.nl · 10/09/2025

Serieuze zorgen over geautomatiseerde selecties. De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens vraagt de Belastingdienst dringend om een plan van aanpak te maken om zijn geautomatiseerde selectie-instrumenten te toetsen en te beoordelen aan de hand van de wettelijke kaders en eisen. ibestuur.nl/artikel/seri...

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Serieuze zorgen over geautomatiseerde selecties Belastingdienst - iBestuur

De Belastingdienst moet een plan van aanpak maken om alle geautomatiseerde selectie-instrumenten te beoordelen en toetsen aan de wet.

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