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Signal Founder Launches Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot Confer

1/14/2026

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Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, has introduced Confer, an AI chatbot prioritizing user privacy.
Confer uses end-to-end encryption and does not collect or store user data.
Confer uses passkeys such as Face ID to generate encryption keys.
Confer relies on a Trusted Execution Environment for secure processing.
Confer features remote attestation to verify the code on its servers, with the aim of making confidentiality the default in AI.

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Story summary

Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, has introduced Confer, an AI chatbot prioritizing user privacy.
Confer uses end-to-end encryption and does not collect or store user data.
Confer uses passkeys such as Face ID to generate encryption keys.
Confer relies on a Trusted Execution Environment for secure processing.
Confer features remote attestation to verify the code on its servers, with the aim of making confidentiality the default in AI.