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With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech.
The secure messaging app Signal is famous for knowing as little about its users as possible. The app isn’t hoarding metadata, tracking you, or showing you ads—in other words, it’s not monetizing user data. Instead, the Signal Foundation is a nonprofit. Its president, Meredith Whittaker, sees a massive shift underway and an “invitation for action” as the monoliths of Big Tech lose popularity and the old economics of Silicon Valley become brittle.
See more: https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-meredith-whittaker-signal-2024/
#signal #privacy
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech.
The secure messaging app Signal is famous for knowing as little about its users as possible. The app isn’t hoarding metadata, tracking you, or showing you ads—in other words, it’s not monetizing user data. Instead, the Signal Foundation is a nonprofit. Its president, Meredith Whittaker, sees a massive shift underway and an “invitation for action” as the monoliths of Big Tech lose popularity and the old economics of Silicon Valley become brittle.
See more: https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-meredith-whittaker-signal-2024/
#signal #privacy