podcast October 28, 2026 YouTube

The end of privacy | Signal president’s warning

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Signal president Meredith Whittaker joins Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (from 22:58, after their segment on Anthropic’s S-1) to argue that AI agents with screen and data access threaten the possibility of private messaging itself, that encryption still faces backdoor demands from the UK to Canada, and that calling AI a marketing term is a demand for technical specificity rather than a dismissal.

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