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School Surveillance Earns Tech Companies Billions. Students Pay the Price.

Tech firms have outfitted classrooms with data-gathering surveillance technologies that undermine education and privacy.

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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/0jIl2

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Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the 'edge lords' at OpenAI

Among other things, Whittaker is concerned about the concentration of power in the five main social media platforms.