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The Signal Technology Foundation, commonly known as the Signal Foundation, [1] [2] is an American non-profit organization founded in 2018 by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton. [3] Its mission is to "protect free expression and enable secure global communication through open source privacy technology ."
Signal is now developed by Signal Messenger LLC, a software company founded by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton in 2018, which is wholly owned by a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation called the Signal Technology Foundation, also created by them in 2018. The Foundation was funded with an initial loan of $50 million from Acton, "to support ...
Matthew Rosenfeld, better known by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. [1] [3] Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal Messenger LLC.
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. [1] [2] [3] She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute. She also served as a senior advisor on AI to Chair Lina Khan at the Federal Trade ...
Prior to NPR, she was the CEO of Web Summit and chair of the board of directors at the Signal Foundation. She transitioned to the role of non-executive chairperson at Web Summit in March 2024. [4] [5] She is a former chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. [6] [7] [8]
Brian Acton (born February 17, 1972) is an American business executive and computer programmer serving as the executive chairperson of Signal Technology Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018. [1] [2] Acton also serves as interim chief executive officer (CEO) of Signal Messenger LLC. [3] He was formerly employed at Yahoo!.
Open Whisper Systems (abbreviated OWS [7]) was a software development group [8] that was founded by Moxie Marlinspike in 2013. The group picked up the open source development of TextSecure and RedPhone, and was later responsible for starting the development of the Signal Protocol [9] and the Signal messaging app.
In November 2015, Open Whisper Systems merged TextSecure with RedPhone and renamed it as Signal. [19] In 2018, Signal Messenger was incorporated as an LLC by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton and then rolled under the independent non-profit Signal Technology Foundation .