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How the ‘safest place on the internet’ tracks its users (UPDATED)

Posted on October 16, 2014 by pogowasright.org

This report on Whisper by Dominic Rushe and Paul Lewis of The Guardian seems to have Neetzan Zimmerman of Whisper (@neetzan) in a fury, as Sam Biddle notes on Kinja.

UPDATE: Alyson Shontell reports Whisper Just Wrote A 5-Page Response To A Scathing Security Report: ‘We Do Not Track Or Follow Our Users’.

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1 thought on “How the ‘safest place on the internet’ tracks its users (UPDATED)”

  1. Amazed canuck says:
    October 17, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    An iOS forensics expert takes a preliminary quick look at it:
    http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=4056

    “… the Whisper app does not appear to be a social networking application with analytics; it appears to be an analytics and user acquisition application that also happens to have a social networking component.”

    —
    Note: the website above won’t load if you block java and other things.

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