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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

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.