{"id":14899,"date":"2024-06-20T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/you-cannot-do-mass-surveillance-privately-full-stop-signal-boss-hits-out-at-government-encryption-busting-moves\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:37:20","slug":"you-cannot-do-mass-surveillance-privately-full-stop-signal-boss-hits-out-at-government-encryption-busting-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/you-cannot-do-mass-surveillance-privately-full-stop-signal-boss-hits-out-at-government-encryption-busting-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop\u2019: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018legitimate grievance\u2019 with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/jun\/20\/australia-news-live-nuclear-power-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-business-insolvencies-penny-wong-png\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police have used the \u201cvery legitimate grievance\u201d the public has with large tech companies like Meta about data collection and surveillance as a pretext to undermine user privacy, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has said.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith Whittaker told Guardian Australia that it had become \u201can easy win with few political consequences\u201d for politicians to beat up on Facebook in the past decade, and while there was legitimate public backlash against the \u201cmass surveillance tech business model\u201d the policy response had a \u201cvery unfortunate shape\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7c14691648f6a473c8329237e05bea15ce9834fe\/0_541_4799_2879\/master\/4799.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=00efc943a4f511446a8f0b9446fb8ee7\" title=\"\u2018You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop\u2019: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moves\" \/>A \u2018legitimate grievance\u2019 with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Police have used the \u201cvery legitimate grievance\u201d the public has with large tech companies like Meta about data collection and surveillance as a pretext to undermine user privacy, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has said.<br \/>\nMeredith Whittaker told Guardian Australia that it had become \u201can easy win with few political consequences\u201d for politicians to beat up on Facebook in the past decade, and while there was legitimate public backlash against the \u201cmass surveillance tech business model\u201d the policy response had a \u201cvery unfortunate shape\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018legitimate grievance\u2019 with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Police have used the \u201cvery legitimate grievance\u201d the public has with large &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/you-cannot-do-mass-surveillance-privately-full-stop-signal-boss-hits-out-at-government-encryption-busting-moves\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop\u2019: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moves<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}