For this episode we made an exception and decided to record an interview in English. We are talking to Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, a non-profit company that's developing the Signal app that is world's most popular Multiplatform private encrypted messenger system. We talk to Meredith about her way into the digital realm, how she shook up Google by organizing walkouts and more or less erasing all memories to it's "don't be evil" motto, how Signal came to be and what its principles are, how she views Europe and the regulations policies of the EU and much much more.
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Good morning, Linus. Good morning, Tim. Linus, what watch? Ten watch. Such much? You'll get along beautifully in America.
Logbuch Netzpolitik number 503 from October 16, 2024. And you will have noticed it. Wir sprechen eine andere Sprache. Wir sprechen eine andere Sprache heute, weil wir haben heute einen Gast und das ist dann ein Gespräch, was wir heute auf Englisch führen wollen.
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Oh. Anyway, we say hello to Meredith. Meredith Whittaker. Hello, welcome to our podcast. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for having me. Meredith, you are, in case somebody doesn't know you, the president of the Signal Foundation.
I am. I am.
And Signal is a messenger 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.
What makes it special?
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.
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