![]() ![]() ![]() Whisper does not collect nor store any personally identifiable information from users and is anonymous. It reports that the company is tracking user movements, following certain users’ posts carefully if they claimed to work or live in particular places, sharing information with the Department of Defense when people using smartphones on military bases post about suicide and self-harm, and storing user data indefinitely, even when people delete their accounts. Its co-founder and CEO Michael Heyward has said that the service is the “safest place on internet.” But when the Guardian-which was considering partnering with Whisper on journalism projects-did some investigating, it made some weird discoveries. Whisper is a social network for anonymously posting secrets about anything. The Guardian is reporting that Whisper has caved to that temptation. But you can see how it would be tempting to just take a quick peek. Companies like to claim that they won’t take advantage of their customer data. If you make an account with a service, it has identifying information for you. We already know that the anonymity promises of anonymous social networks are … questionable.
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