Whisper Shares Your Secrets With the Web
An app designed to “share secrets” ironically ended up sharing too much about its users last March. Dubbed the “safest place on Earth,” the Whisper app was originally launched in 2012 as an “anonymous” social media platform where users could safely share personal information without exposing their identities. Yet the company left 900 million users’ private messages—as well as their geographic locations—exposed to the internet until the Washington Post called them and told them about it.
