We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.
In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
A lot of companies are global.
People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.
We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.
In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.
We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.
