Trump downplayed the severity of this extraordinary leak of classified information and told NBC News that “Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man.” But what Trump calls a learning moment is what Jennifer King, a privacy and data policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence calls “one of those really simple dumb mistakes.”
King does not blame the Signal app for this human error. The Trump administration officials “were using a tool that they shouldn’t have been using for what they were doing,” she said, noting that this conversation should have been done using secure government equipment. “For better or for worse, Signal is not there to make sure that you didn’t make a mistake in who you added to that list.“
- Date Published:3.25.2025
- Original Publication: Huffpost