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The Vergecast

Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker

The Vergecast

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4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

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 your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A regular one's a show is off this week, so I wanted to share an episode of Decoder that I did

1:08.7

recently with Meredith Whitaker. She's a president of Signal, the encrypted messaging app.

1:13.6

If you're a Vergecast listener, you're going to like this conversation. It's a whole show about

1:16.7

messaging apps after all. Signal has way different priorities than Google and Apple. Meredith is

1:21.4

going to explain all that to you during this show. We'll be back on Friday to talk about all the

1:24.9

news from the week, but in the meantime, here is my chat on Decoder with Meredith Whitaker, president of

1:30.2

Signal. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Apatel, editor in chief of the Verge and Decoder

1:37.2

is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking to Meredith Whitaker. She's

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