Whisper, a popular social networking app that promises all posts to be published anonymously allegedly still tracks users who choose not to have their locaton disclosed.
The Guardian reported that Whisper is monitoring users and sharing collected information with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Four days after The Guardian approached the company for comment, where Whisper denied the claims, they reportedly updated their terms of service.
Since the article was published yesterday, Whisper's editor-in-chief Neetzan Zimmerman is denying all of The Guardian's claims.
First response: The Guardian’s piece is lousy with falsehoods, and we will be debunking them all. Much more to come.
— Neetzan Zimmerman (@neetzan) October 16, 2014
He asked Whisper users to tweet him questions for him to answer, claiming that The Guardian's allegations were all false.
"We neither receive nor store geographical coordinates from users whoopt out of geolocation services" Zimmerman writes on a Scribd page. "User IP addresses may allow very coarse location to bedetermined to the city, state, or country level.Even for users who opt into geolocation services, the location information that we dostore is obscured to within 500 meters of their smartphone device's actual location."
