It is hard not to think of the way personal data has been used to enrich the new media barons atop social media companies and not feel utterly ripped off. Private information that we have given them in exchange for using their platforms has become a commodity hawked to the highest bidders, sometimes to our own detriment.
Yet with the rise of AI, we find ourselves feeding LLMs even more intimate information about ourselves. Last month we began to think of an alternative, a platform sworn to secrecy where private chats are supposed to be private and users’ data are not sold. Ultimately we settled on Signal, the open-source, encrypted messaging app.
As our cybersecurity writer, Chivumnovu, offers in his piece, “For me, a paranoid creature of the internet looking to protect my data and correspondence, it felt like where my placenta was buried.”
Find out what he saw on the app and why he ultimately decided giving his data to Mark Zuckerberg was a better deal.
— Dennis, Managing Editor
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