Elon Musk 'broke the seal' on global tech lay-offs, says Signal president Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker talks about Signal's expenses, the global tech lay-offs and attending Web Summit for the second time

President of the Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker, said: “I think what happened was Twitter broke the seal and then gave permission to the industry to cite a fairly ephemeral economic downturn, which didn’t actually manifest itself, as a reason to break a number of promises and cut teams that they weren’t seeing as valuable for whatever reason.” Picture: Wikimedia

Meredith Whittaker is a thorn in the side of tech multinationals that provide free services globally in return for personal data.

In her role as president of the foundation which operates the private end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal, she has proven there is a way to provide people with a free communication app without sacrificing privacy.