39C3 – AI Agent, AI Spy
39C3 – AI Agent, AI Spy
Signal president Meredith Whittaker and VP Udbhav Tiwari presented this talk at 39C3, explaining how the growing deployment of agentic AI in operating systems and browsers threatens to undermine even the strongest privacy guarantees.
Drawing on Signal’s work as a privacy-first messenger, they showed how features like Microsoft Recall can bypass application-level protections such as end-to-end encryption, while also outlining practical steps to defend user privacy, developer agency, and personal autonomy.
Recorded in December 2025.
