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\"<p>Meredith
Meredith Whittaker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>Signal<\/a>, the encrypted messaging app, has tapped Meredith Whittaker<\/a>, a former adviser to the Federal Trade Commission<\/a> chair and an artificial intelligence expert who protested Google's use of the technology for military projects, as its president.

In the newly created role, Whittaker will guide policy and strategy for the messaging app and work to expand Signal's business.

Signal, which is committed to its users' privacy, does not know how many people use the app, although the number appears to be growing. The app has been downloaded more than 100 million times from the Google Play store, and it ranks 15th among social networking apps on Apple<\/a>'s App Store.

The switch from text messaging to secure apps like Signal is part of \"a growing public awareness over the past half-decade of the harms and reality of the Big Tech surveillance business model,\" Whittaker said in an interview. That awareness, she added, has led people to \"make choices that reject that business model and work to preserve their privacy.\"

Signal, which started in 2014 and attracted privacy-minded users from Silicon Valley<\/a>, has grown into a mainstay messaging app. The service is free. Unlike other free apps, Signal has never raised venture capital funding or sold advertising.

The nonprofit that maintains Signal is funded by donations - most notably, a $50 million infusion in 2018 from Brian Acton, a co-founder of WhatsApp and Signal's interim CEO. (Acton left WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta<\/a>, in 2017 and has become a vocal critic of Meta.) Signal also collects donations from users, rewarding contributors with badges that they can display on their profiles.

\"Brian's contribution helped lay a foundation where we have the room to work toward a broad base of support that sustains Signal for the long term,\" Whittaker said. \"It costs tens of millions of dollars every year to maintain Signal, and that's a very lean budget compared to our competition.\"

Compared with the hundreds of people working on WhatsApp, Signal employs around 40 people.

Whittaker, who did not provide her age, worked at Google as an artificial intelligence researcher for more than a decade. In 2018, she protested the company's involvement in Project Maven, a military project that used artificial intelligence to interpret images gathered by drones, and its $90 million payout to an executive accused of sexual harassment.

She left Google in 2019 and has since advised FTC Chair Lina Kahn<\/a> on artificial intelligence issues and researched artificial intelligence and ethics as a professor at New York University.

Whittaker said she planned to focus on policy as Congress weighs a bill that could require companies like Signal to break encryption and scan the contents of users' messages.

\"To keep our privacy promises,\" she said, \"we need to keep our privacy designs robust.\"



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信号任命梅雷迪思惠塔克

在新创建的角色,惠塔克将为消息传递应用程序和指导政策和战略扩大信号的业务工作。

  • 更新2022年9月7日02:05点坚持
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梅雷迪思惠塔克
信号、加密的消息传递应用程序了梅雷迪思惠塔克前顾问联邦贸易委员会椅子和一个人工智能专家反对谷歌的使用技术的军事项目,作为其总统。

在新创建的角色,惠塔克将为消息传递应用程序和指导政策和战略扩大信号的业务工作。

信号,致力于用户的隐私,不知道有多少人使用这个应用程序,尽管似乎越来越多。应用程序已经被下载超过1亿次从谷歌玩商店,它排名第15位社交网络应用程序苹果应用程序商店。

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开关信号等短信安全应用程序的一部分,“越来越多的公众意识在过去5年的大型技术监测的危害和现实的商业模式,”惠塔克在接受采访时表示。意识,她补充说,导致人们对“做出选择,拒绝商业模式和工作为了保护他们的隐私。”

信号,它于2014年开始,吸引了privacy-minded用户硅谷已经成长为一个主要消息传递应用程序,服务是免费的。不像其他的免费应用程序,信号从未提出风险资本融资或出售广告。

保持信号是由捐赠的非营利组织——最明显的是,一个从2018年的5000万美元注入布莱恩·阿克顿WhatsApp的创始人之一和信号的临时CEO。(阿克顿左WhatsApp,隶属元2017年,成为元的直言不讳地批评)。信号也从用户收集捐款,奖励贡献者和徽章,他们可以显示在个人资料。

“布莱恩的贡献帮助奠定基础,我们有房间朝着一个广泛的基础支撑,维持长期的信号,”惠塔克表示。“每年花费数千万美元维持信号,这是一个非常精简预算比我们的竞争对手。”

与数百人致力于WhatsApp相比,信号约40名员工。

惠塔克,他没有提供她的年龄,在谷歌工作作为人工智能研究人员十多年了。2018年,她抗议Maven公司参与的项目,一个军事项目,使用人工智能解释无人机收集的图片,和其9000万美元支付高管被指控性骚扰。

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她于2019年离开谷歌,已经建议美国联邦贸易委员会主席莉娜卡恩人工智能问题,研究了人工智能和伦理作为纽约大学教授。

惠塔克说,她计划把重点放在政策国会重打破一项法案,该法案可能需要等公司信号加密和扫描用户的消息的内容。

“让我们的隐私承诺,”她说,“我们需要保持我们的隐私设计健壮。”



  • 发布于2022年9月7日02:03点坚持
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\"&lt;p&gt;Meredith
Meredith Whittaker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>Signal<\/a>, the encrypted messaging app, has tapped Meredith Whittaker<\/a>, a former adviser to the Federal Trade Commission<\/a> chair and an artificial intelligence expert who protested Google's use of the technology for military projects, as its president.

In the newly created role, Whittaker will guide policy and strategy for the messaging app and work to expand Signal's business.

Signal, which is committed to its users' privacy, does not know how many people use the app, although the number appears to be growing. The app has been downloaded more than 100 million times from the Google Play store, and it ranks 15th among social networking apps on Apple<\/a>'s App Store.

The switch from text messaging to secure apps like Signal is part of \"a growing public awareness over the past half-decade of the harms and reality of the Big Tech surveillance business model,\" Whittaker said in an interview. That awareness, she added, has led people to \"make choices that reject that business model and work to preserve their privacy.\"

Signal, which started in 2014 and attracted privacy-minded users from Silicon Valley<\/a>, has grown into a mainstay messaging app. The service is free. Unlike other free apps, Signal has never raised venture capital funding or sold advertising.

The nonprofit that maintains Signal is funded by donations - most notably, a $50 million infusion in 2018 from Brian Acton, a co-founder of WhatsApp and Signal's interim CEO. (Acton left WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta<\/a>, in 2017 and has become a vocal critic of Meta.) Signal also collects donations from users, rewarding contributors with badges that they can display on their profiles.

\"Brian's contribution helped lay a foundation where we have the room to work toward a broad base of support that sustains Signal for the long term,\" Whittaker said. \"It costs tens of millions of dollars every year to maintain Signal, and that's a very lean budget compared to our competition.\"

Compared with the hundreds of people working on WhatsApp, Signal employs around 40 people.

Whittaker, who did not provide her age, worked at Google as an artificial intelligence researcher for more than a decade. In 2018, she protested the company's involvement in Project Maven, a military project that used artificial intelligence to interpret images gathered by drones, and its $90 million payout to an executive accused of sexual harassment.

She left Google in 2019 and has since advised FTC Chair Lina Kahn<\/a> on artificial intelligence issues and researched artificial intelligence and ethics as a professor at New York University.

Whittaker said she planned to focus on policy as Congress weighs a bill that could require companies like Signal to break encryption and scan the contents of users' messages.

\"To keep our privacy promises,\" she said, \"we need to keep our privacy designs robust.\"



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