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How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate
Whittaker was forced to respond to a political firestorm after a White House blunder turned private chats into a national crisis
Whittaker read, slack-jawed, about how President Trump’s then-national security advisor Mike Waltz had added the editor of the Atlantic magazine, apparently accidentally, to a Signal group chat where senior officials discussed forthcoming military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. “It had all the elements of a soap opera.” A month later, the New York Times reported U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had used a separate Signal chat to share similar details about military strikes. So ensuring [privacy] in a world where the authority to know us has been ceded to private actors who may or may not cooperate with 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.
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