{"id":14304,"date":"2014-10-17T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14304"},"modified":"2014-10-17T22:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T03:32:28","slug":"how-whisper-app-tracks-anonymous-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14304","title":{"rendered":"how Whisper app tracks \u2018anonymous\u2019 users"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But on Monday \u2013 four days after learning the Guardian intended to publish this story \u2013 <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/16\/-sp-whisper-privacy-policy-terms-of-service\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Whisper rewrote its terms of service<\/a>; they now explicitly permit the company to establish the broad location of people who have disabled the app\u2019s geolocation feature.<\/p>\n<p>Whisper has <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/16\/-sp-whispers-secret-safest-place-internet-tracks-users\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">developed an in-house mapping tool<\/a> that allows its staff to filter and search GPS data, pinpointing messages to within 500 meters of where they were sent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/16\/-sp-revealed-whisper-app-tracking-users\">Revealed: how Whisper app tracks \u2018anonymous\u2019 users | Technology | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whisper, which was recently valued at over $200m, has grown rapidly since its launch two years ago. It is among the fleet of confessional apps, such as Secret and Yik Yak, which backers say enable users to be more candid than they are on other social media platforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But on Monday \u2013 four days after learning the Guardian intended to publish this story \u2013 Whisper rewrote its terms of service; they now explicitly permit the company to establish the broad location of people who have disabled the app\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[509,188,247,1032],"class_list":["post-14304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-location-data","tag-privacy","tag-social-networking","tag-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14306,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304\/revisions\/14306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}