Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
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On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

She has her hand in too many strategic places, unlike Telegram.

employed at Google for 13 years

speaker at the 2018 World Summit

written for the American Civil Liberties Union

advised the White House, the FCC, the FTC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations

It’s a pleasing thought, of course, that an influential person may have morals and good goals (and nice looks).

But since there’s no way to know for sure, I think I’ll just stop trying to classify those names into good and evil.

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