Great interview with [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) in WIRED :press: (npub1ejm…4j05) from Andy Greenberg (npub13va…aerq) talking Signal (npub1rkw…5q62), #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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2024-08-28 15:16:40
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