Signal President Meredith Whittaker learned what not to do from working at Google
KEY POINTS Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, gained a skepticism of profit-motivated companies while working at Google. Whittaker said the Signal app, which is encrypted, intentionally holds as little user data as possible. “On the record, loudly as possible, no!” Whittaker said, when asked if Signal plans to incorporate ChatGPT-like tools. Meredith Whittaker, a former Google Manager who is now president at Signal.(Florian Hetz for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Florian Hetzt | The Washington Post | Getty Images Meredith Whittaker took a top role at the Signal Foundation last year, moving into the nonprofit world after a career in academia, government work and the tech industry. She’s now president of an organization that operates one of the world’s most popular encrypted messaging apps, with tens of millions of people using it to keep their chats private and out of the purview of big tech companies. Whittaker has real-world reasons to be skeptical of f