How Whisper App Tracks 'Anonymous' Users
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be the “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users, including some who have...
View ArticleWhisper Shouts Denials of Tracking Allegations
Whisper, which promises anonymity, is steamed over allegations that it's been blowing its users' cover by sharing location-tracking data with the feds. The company insists that it hasn't revealed any...
View ArticleTwitter's former security head condemns Whisper's privacy flaws
Whisper should never have claimed to offer unlinkable anonymity when its business model is apparently headed towards data mining, said Moxie Marlinspike ...
View ArticleUPDATED: Report: Whisper tracks its 'anonymous' users
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View ArticleThink you can Whisper privately? Think again
You might be forgiven for thinking that Whisper was an app about privacy and anonymity. ...
View ArticleThe Guardian eats its words on juiciest bits of Whisper story
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View Article10 things we learned this week
From the fight against Ebola to the revelation that the Whisper app is tracking its ‘anonymous’ users, here is a round-up of the week’s news ...
View ArticleWhisper it softly, but BuzzFeed has a new source for viral stories
News site reportedly plans to mine anonymous-sharing app Whisper for potential article material ...
View ArticleIs Whisper Anonymous? App Tracks User Location, Guardian Reports, As Neetzan...
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View ArticleNext Time You Post A Secret On Anonymous App Whisper, BuzzFeed Writers Will...
See Also Whisper, one of the several anonymous secret-sharing apps that has cropped up in the last year, just inked a partnership with BuzzFeed that gives the publication extended access to its...
View ArticleInside the 'bizarre' public fight anonymous app Whisper is having with a...
Whisper co-founder Michael Heyward See Also Just when it seemed like the controversy surrounding anonymous message posting app Whisper was calming down, the company is facing new accusations. And the...
View ArticleAnonymous App Whisper Faces Allegations About Privacy, Says They're 'A...
PHOTOFORMULA.com | by RINGO CHIUWhisper CEO Michael Heyward. Two reporters for The Guardian spent three days at the headquarters of Whisper, a popular anonymous app that lets millions of people share...
View ArticleAt Whisper's news-gathering operation, data collection comes under siege
Can an app that people anonymously share confessions on, some of which become fodder for news stories, protect the users' identities? That's the issue surrounding Whisper this week. When opening the...
View ArticleWhisper denies ‘Guardian’ allegations of data sharing
The anonymous messaging app Whisper has lashed out at the Guardian newspaper, denying allegations that it secretly tracked users and shared data with the US government. “A pack of vicious lies,” was...
View ArticleThe Guardian backtracks privacy allegations against Whisper
The newspaper behind a series of serious privacy allegations against anonymous sharing app Whisper has backed away from many of its claims. The Guardian published several articles last October alleging...
View ArticleReport: Whisper Tracks Users Even When They Ask It Not To
You should know by now that purportedly anonymous apps...
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(Source: International Journalism Festival) 25 October 2014 by Vincenzo Marino - translated by Roberta Aiello This week Ben Bradlee, former editor of the Washington Post, died at the age of 93. As...
View ArticleAnonymous sharing app Whisper under a cloud over user location data
Anonymous sharing app Whisper has come under a cloud after a newspaper report charged it with tracking the location of its users, including those who have asked not to be followed. Whisper, which is...
View ArticleWhisper CEO Tells Users To Email Him If They Are Worried About Being Tracked
PHOTOFORMULA.com | by RINGO CHIU Last week, newspaper The Guardian published a story saying that the people who run Whisper, an app for sharing thoughts anonymously, track the whereabouts of the apps...
View ArticlePrivacy experts call for Whisper to be investigated over tracking of some users
Federal Trade Commission could examine issue of ‘anonymous’ app tracking users who have asked not to be followed ...
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