Privacy is ‘the most valuable right of all’, says Signal’s president.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/signal-data-privacy-meredith-whittaker/

Research from the World Economic Forum shows it’s becoming easier for citizens to be monitored, allowing governments, technology companies and threat actors to “reach deeper into people’s lives”.

In response, people are “waking up” to privacy, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of secure messaging service Signal.

Here, she explores the drivers behind this shift and how it could impact the digital landscape.

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SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So say we all

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- hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So say we all
  
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1luv8008135@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So is it dodge that these two things( newsweek.com/signal-war-plans-cia-director-john-r…) are so close together or should I really put the tin foil hat down?

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Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“Valuable you say…”

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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lulz, privacy without food to eat won’t be too useful

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Food is not a right at all
  
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  - Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Neither is privacy then
    
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- einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:
  
  To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.
  
  However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷
  
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  - wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    …and for that you get down voted.
    
    I think you expressed that well.
    
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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Food isn’t a right though. It’s necessary for life, sure, but nobody is obligated to provide you with food unless you’re incarcerated or something.
  
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  - uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Article 25
    
    When I was younger I knew it as the “Right to Food & Shelter”, though I’m not sure if that was taught in a Canadian context.
    
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  - Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    But privacy is?
    
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  - ProvableGecko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Food isn’t a right though.
    
    That’s also something else to think about
    
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not sure if I agree but many rights are so important its hard to put one over another. Speech is very high on my list and the use of valuable in the title is strange. I don't see the qote anywhere in the article though but what they do say is powerful:

“I think of privacy from the framework of fundamental human rights, the rights of private communication, to live a private life, to think and do and communicate with who you want."

“We can't build new worlds, we can't imagine new paradigms without that incubation space, without the safety to experiment with ideas and think about what could work or not.”

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