Signal's Whittaker: OS-Integrated AI Agents Create a "Data Collection Apparatus"

At TechBBQ 2026 in Copenhagen, Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI assistants embedded in operating systems — citing ChatGPT's iMessage integration — create a "data collection apparatus." The trust model shifts from voluntary sharing to platform-mediated access by default, she said, framing it as both a privacy and sovereignty concern.