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Podcast: The Vergecast
Episode: Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker
Description: Today we're sharing an episode of Decoder with Nilay Patel featuring an interview with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal.Signal is the popular messaging app that offers encrypted communication. You might recognize Meredith’s name from 2018 when she was an AI researcher at Google and one of the organizers of the Google walkout. Now she’s at Signal, which is a little different than the usual tech company: it’s operated by a nonprofit foundation and prides itself on collecting as little data as possible.Listen to more of Decoder with Nilay Patel anywhere you get yo...