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Whisper users tracked?
The so called safest place on the internet is reported to have tracked its anonymous users.
Guardian today reported that the anonymous messaging App was not so anonymous at all.
The unique thing about Whisper was that it guaranteed anonymity and privacy to its users.
Users post messages which are displayed as text superimposed over an image, similar to greeting cards.
Currently, users of Whisper are publishing as many as 2.6m messages a day.
Facebook is reportedly developing its own Whisper-style app for anonymous publishing.
The trend toward anonymity in social media has some privacy experts concerned about security.
The Guardian found that Whisper is gathering location data during partnership talks last month.
To back its research, Guardian published the below mentioned images which showed the exact location of the sender.
Guardians blog states that its research also established the following facts.
Whispers CTO Chad DePue refuted The Guardians allegations by claiming, this is really bad reporting.
DePue claims that they only use a service called Maxmind GeoIP database which according to him is highly inaccurate.
We just dont have any personally identifiable information.
Not name, email, phone number, etc, DePue added.
Buzzfeed, Whispers long standing partner has broken its collaboration deal with Whisper due to the above revelations.
you could read the entire Guardian expose on Whisperhere
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source: www.techworm.net
