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The Wickr Foundation, founded in May of 2015, is a non-profit organization founded by Nico Sell, former CEO of Wickr, using the technology as the for-profit business of the same name. The foundation is dedicated to providing free and secure messaging services to groups including children, political dissidents, human rights activists, and journalists. Sell stepped down as CEO of Wickr to become CEO of the new non-profit, while Mark Fields took over as the new CEO of Wickr.〔 〕 Sell has stated her desire to keep the messaging app free for all users. As such the foundation split from Wickr to allow the business to focus on paid deals with enterprises and white-label services, while the foundation focuses on end-to-end encrypted and self-destructing messages, including photos and file attachments. Sell has stated that the Wickr Foundation is in line with her initial inspirations to found the firm. She has cited the Mozilla Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation as examples "as two models of how a dichotomy can exist with business and nonprofit today."〔〔〔 Sell is an advocate for Internet security and works to disperse information to the concerned public.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.psfk.com/2015/07/wickr-nico-sell-encrypted-messaging-system-protect-online-identities.html )〕 Partnering with Wickr, the Wickr Foundation aims to educate groups such as human rights activists, journalists, policy-makers, and the youth about digital security awareness and the benefits of encryption, while advocating for private communication.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.wickr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wickr-Transparency-Report-June-30-2015.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://vator.tv/news/2015-05-06-wickr-debuts-non-profit-to-promote-a-free-and-open-web )〕 The organization also works with human rights activists to lobby for more freedom of speech, looser government control and intervention on media, and to continue developing tools to maintain this effort. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wickr Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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