{"id":277270,"date":"2026-06-20T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/meredith-whittaker-warns-chatbots-can-become-privacy-backdoors-ukraine-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:50:17","slug":"meredith-whittaker-warns-chatbots-can-become-privacy-backdoors-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/meredith-whittaker-warns-chatbots-can-become-privacy-backdoors-ukraine-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Whittaker warns chatbots can become privacy backdoors | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mezha.net\/eng\/bukvy\/5140d388_meredith_whittaker_warns\/\">Meredith Whittaker warns chatbots can become privacy backdoors | Ukraine news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mezha.net\/eng\/bukvy\/5140d388_meredith_whittaker_warns\/\">https:\/\/mezha.net\/eng\/bukvy\/5140d388_meredith_whittaker_warns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 17:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mezha.net\">mezha.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">A leading privacy advocate describes how granting AI sweeping access could turn assistants into covert entry points and erode user control.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg about privacy policy, the future of artificial intelligence, and Signal\u2019s role, Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, spoke about the privacy of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not self-aware conversational partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker also noted that she sometimes uses AI tools to format documents, but she doesn\u2019t ask them questions and aims to keep the ideation process open.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What you just described is a system with very broad access to several apps and services. In the context of Signal, this would be a kind of backdoor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Meredith Whittaker<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Mustafa Suleyman\u2019s assertion, the CEO of Microsoft AI, that users may entrust Copilot to handle all their Christmas purchases, Whittaker noted that such a prospect would mean giving Copilot access to a credit card, a browser, Signal, the ability to send messages to relatives on behalf of the user, home address, and calendar. In this context, for Signal it would effectively be a backdoor.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, Whittaker emphasizes the need for strict privacy protection and control over data access during the deployment and use of AI to avoid potential risks for users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mezha.net\/eng\/bukvy\/5140d388_meredith_whittaker_warns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Whittaker warns chatbots can become privacy backdoors | Ukraine news https:\/\/mezha.net\/eng\/bukvy\/5140d388_meredith_whittaker_warns\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mezha.net\/eng\/kd_image_generate\/5140d388_meredith_whittaker_warns\/2641213.jpg?ver=2.0.15","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277272,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277270\/revisions\/277272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}