Meredith Whittaker

Good morning, Linus. Good morning, Tim. Linus, what watch? Ten watch. Such much? You'll get along beautifully in America.

Good morning, Linus. Good morning, Tim. Linus, what watch? Ten watch. Such much? You'll get along beautifully in America.

Good morning, Linus. Good morning, Tim. Linus, what watch? Ten watch. Such much? You'll get along beautifully in America.

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I am. I am.

I am. I am.

It is the world's most widely used truly private messaging application. I always have to put the full sentence in there. A very special messaging application.

It is the world's most widely used truly private messaging application. I always have to put the full sentence in there. A very special messaging application.

It is the world's most widely used truly private messaging application. I always have to put the full sentence in there. A very special messaging application.

We build against the grain, to put it in kind of flowery language. We go out of our way to build for privacy and to get as close to collecting no data at all as possible, which, as you and I assume many in your audience know, is a lot more work.

We build against the grain, to put it in kind of flowery language. We go out of our way to build for privacy and to get as close to collecting no data at all as possible, which, as you and I assume many in your audience know, is a lot more work.

We build against the grain, to put it in kind of flowery language. We go out of our way to build for privacy and to get as close to collecting no data at all as possible, which, as you and I assume many in your audience know, is a lot more work.

Well, encrypting is part of that, but then you need to make sure the encryption works. And then encryption of message content isn't going to solve all of your problems because you also have metadata. You also have libraries you're pulling in. You have core services you're working with.

Well, encrypting is part of that, but then you need to make sure the encryption works. And then encryption of message content isn't going to solve all of your problems because you also have metadata. You also have libraries you're pulling in. You have core services you're working with.

Well, encrypting is part of that, but then you need to make sure the encryption works. And then encryption of message content isn't going to solve all of your problems because you also have metadata. You also have libraries you're pulling in. You have core services you're working with.

So there's a lot of ingenuity required to actually create a system that is rejecting the normative assumptions of the tech industry today, which is that we all want to collect a ton of data. And we all want to monetize that data. We want to sell you ads with that data. We want to sell that to different customers as a data broker. We want to train AI models with that data.

So there's a lot of ingenuity required to actually create a system that is rejecting the normative assumptions of the tech industry today, which is that we all want to collect a ton of data. And we all want to monetize that data. We want to sell you ads with that data. We want to sell that to different customers as a data broker. We want to train AI models with that data.

So there's a lot of ingenuity required to actually create a system that is rejecting the normative assumptions of the tech industry today, which is that we all want to collect a ton of data. And we all want to monetize that data. We want to sell you ads with that data. We want to sell that to different customers as a data broker. We want to train AI models with that data.

Most of the infrastructure in the tech ecosystem now assumes that as a given. And then we have to rewrite things too.

Most of the infrastructure in the tech ecosystem now assumes that as a given. And then we have to rewrite things too.