The Big Interview

‘The tech industry is based on monetising surveillance’ – Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal

The head of a company that offers private communications unlike those owned by data-harvesting Big Tech firms, Whittaker says the famous stand she made against Google while working there has made her wary of so much power being concentrated in the hands of a few

Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal messaging application: best known for being one of the organisers of a series of walkouts by 20,000 Google employees in 2018 over the company’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Picture: Getty