Surveillance 'existential' danger of tech - Signal boss

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[TRENDING] Surveillance 'existential' danger of tech - Signal boss

Meredith Whittaker spent many years working for Google before leading a staff walkout in 2018 over the firm's military-linked projectsLISBON - The mysticism that has allowed tech firms to make billions of dollars from surveillance is finally clearing, the boss of encrypted messaging app Signal told AFP.

But legislators and users were now reckoning with the"well-documented harms of allowing a handful of large corporations have the power to surveil almost every aspect of human life". "We want to make sure that everyone in the world can pick up their device, quickly open Signal, use it to communicate with anyone else," she said.

The company's David vs Goliath act was laid bare in January when co-founder Moxie Marlinspike left his post as CEO, detailing how hard it had been to keep the app going. And she is undaunted by the task, arguing that having talented staff helps close the gap with competitors.

 

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