# Meredith Whittaker

Record: actor-whittaker · Type: actor · Edition: 0.19.0 · Evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15

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Dataset pointer: `/map/entities/28`. Reviewed: 2026-09-15.

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## Position context

Status: unplaced. Kind: person. Evidence clarity: unavailable. Basis: primary. Implementation: public-advocacy.

Sources used: First-hand material.

Position: null. No coordinates assigned.

## /scope

Her argument about AI, surveillance and control of digital infrastructure.

Claim: claim-actor-whittaker-c863eb4481f44246f08ae770. Annotation: editorial.

[whittaker-ndss-2024](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf)

## /caveat

The keynote focuses on privacy and power. It does not provide enough evidence for both frontier-pacing and catastrophe-concern coordinates.

Claim: claim-actor-whittaker-7186e669fd92b7b9ba3a39d1. Annotation: editorial.

[whittaker-ndss-2024](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf)

## /evidence/0/note

Argues that large-scale commercial AI can reinforce data collection and concentrated corporate power.

Claim: claim-actor-whittaker-f6be8a11003487e975135494. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: context · Evidence role: context.

Find the passage: Pages 10–14

[whittaker-ndss-2024](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf)

## /profile/summary

Focuses on privacy, surveillance and who controls digital infrastructure.

Claim: claim-actor-whittaker-d3d975f0c6400f4267a85c3a. Annotation: synthesis.

[whittaker-ndss-2024](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf)

## /profile/sections/0/text

Her argument asks whether people can influence how technology affects their lives. It does not establish that every AI system has the same business model or that privacy concerns imply one catastrophe-risk position.

Claim: claim-actor-whittaker-34a3f168828af6edf63a2866. Annotation: synthesis.

[whittaker-ndss-2024](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf)

## Source provenance

### whittaker-ndss-2024

[AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf)

Meredith Whittaker / Signal · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2024-02-27 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read the keynote's AI, corporate-surveillance and concluding privacy arguments, pages 1–3 and 10–14. Date is the speech date. Used as her argument, not as proof that all AI systems have one business model.

No archive check recorded.