Secret Sharing App Whisper

Secret Sharing App Whisper
Short Title	Secret Sharing App Whisper Found to Collect and Share User Data
Location	United States
Date	October 2014
Solove Harm	Surveillance, Secondary Use, Exclusion, Appropriation, Breach of Confidentiality
Information	Location, Identifying, Social Network, Medical and Health
Threat Actors	Whisper app
Individuals
Affected	Whisper users
High Risk Groups
Tangible Harms	Loss of Trust, Inconvenience

Whisper, a secret sharing app, has been accused of tracking interesting user stories, using information for secondary purposes.

Description

Whisper, the start-up that offered users the cover of anonymity to voice their deepest secrets was actually tracking interesting users ^Surveillance, storing user data and making it searchable for editorial and research use by outside organizations (like the Guardian)^{Secondary Use}, and "sharing information with the US Department of Defense gleaned from smartphones it knows are used from military bases. ^{Breach of Confidentiality} This all was happening without users knowing, which is an example of Exclusion.

Sources

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/30/this-is-the-suicide-info-whisper-gave-to-the-department-of-defense/#28b0f227ff23