News snapshots · 2020-03-11

App for sharing secrets leaves user data exposed – Quick wrap


A report in The Washington Post has said Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing mobile app has allegedly been “inadvertently” exposing sensitive information about its users for years through a public Online database.


Whisper, an App for Sharing Secrets, Left Its User Data Exposed On The Open Web – Gizmodo

Whisper, the anonymous messaging app beloved by teens and tweens the world over, has a problem: it’s not as anonymous as we’d thought. The platform is only the latest that brands itself as private by design while leaking sensitive user data into the open, according to a damning Washington Post…

Link: Whisper, an App for Sharing Secrets, Left Its User Data Exposed On The Open Web
via gizmodo.com


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