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   Kathy Reid (kathyreid@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 00:17:35 JST Kathy Reid

   • Signal
   • Meredith Whittaker
   • WIRED :press:
   • Andy Greenberg

   Great interview with @Mer__edith in @WIRED from @agreenberg talking @signalapp, #surveillance, #privacy and #sustainability

   "Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit. Or another one of my board members comes in, gets really nervous that our revenue model, whatever it is, isn’t bringing in something that meets our goals and says, “Well, maybe we can start collecting metadata. Maybe we can reduce the focus on privacy, because of course our primary objective function, as a traditional for-profit, is revenue and growth.” And privacy in an economy powered by surveillance will necessarily hamper those."

   https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 01:36:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Signal
     • Meredith Whittaker
     • Andy Greenberg

     @KathyReid Bloody hell it’s refreshing to have someone with integrity actually running something that requires integrity.

     Thank you, @Mer__edith 💕

     @WIRED@press.coop @agreenberg @signalapp