Signal's sustainability in an environment of mass surveillance

The tech ecosystem, as it is today, is shaped by concentrated power. The natural monopolies of the telecommunications sectors were not, in fact, disrupted when networked computation was commercialized, and when the internet took shape in the late 1990s. Big Tech simply replicated this monopolistic form, acquiring data and infrastructural monopolies via the surveillance business model, which incentivized mass surveillance and profiling, and the growth-at-all-costs mindset that has got us where we are today.
This concentrated tech power resides in the hands of a handful of corporations, primarily Big Tech companies, which are based in the US and China. As they extend their reach and authority on the wings of the current AI hype, they are shaping an ecosystem that is increasingly hostile to new entrants and small players. Indeed, most startups or small tech endeavors must, in order to function, license infrastructures and use frameworks and libraries controlled and shaped by these large companies.
So, how can organizations like Signal confront and deal with mass surveillance of this industry, sustain and grow in this environment? The President of Signal Foundation and renowned AI scholar, Meredith Whittaker, along with members of the Signal team, discuss the approaches that Signal has adopted in pushing back against the conjoined threats of mass surveillance and enhanced social control of the AI hype wave.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 | ai economy | Ai and the economy of AI Um, what we're going
0:04:39 | value privacy | It's this abstract value privacy, right?.
0:07:44 | climate disaster | Into Climate Disaster or are willing us?
0:13:55 | signal model | How to build a signal model that doesn't quite exist now
0:18:13 | signal structured | Why is Signal structured as a centralized application where there's
0:22:22 | tech industry | How do we work in a tech industry ecosystem that sadly has
0:25:08 | like prove | Just like: how do you prove that you do what you say you
0:28:26 | build apk | How to Build an APK that is uh, the same
0:33:13 | door signal | How to Backd Door the signal protocol or what have you?
0:37:48 | run apk | How to Run an APK but let's be real..
0:40:39 | imagery dramatic | I Think the you know the The imagery is dramatic.
0:46:03 | resistant signal | How resistant signal is um, yeah..
0:53:09 | protect | How do we sort of protect ourselves?.
1:02:11 | ask um | Uh, the second thing I have to ask is um, in
1:06:42 | doing | What are you doing to do?

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If you 'back door' open source software it is no longer secure.
If signal had a back door the perpetrators would not use it anyway!

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42:50 The Libertarian Party may help be able to make the emotional case to support encryption since they are well versed in the abuses of governments that are similar to or causing child abuse and terrorism.
We need to show people that NOT having privacy empowers the worst offenders.