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Signal is a nonprofit that develops the end-to-end encrypted Signal messaging app for private text, voice, and video communication.
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Signal is a privacy tech company, based in Mountain View, California, USA, founded 2018 by Moxie Marlinspike, Brian Acton.
Signal president Meredith Whittaker is warning users not to mistake AI chatbots for confidants, arguing the intimacy they simulate masks a surveillance-and-data business underneath. Her caution lands amid a boom in companion and assistant AI that increasingly positions itself as an emotional relationship.
Signal president Meredith Whittaker is pushing back hard on the rise of companion-style AI, warning that chatbots designed to feel like friends are surveillance-driven products optimized for engagement, not your interests. Her argument lands as companion AI goes mainstream and regulators start to circle.
Signal was founded in 2018, according to Wikipedia.
