Concerns over just how anonymous the secret-sharing app Whisper is are back in the news, and the company is once again suggesting that there's no way it could track its users' exact location. There's just one problem: That's almost certainly not true. To be clear: Whisper emphatically denies that it tracks users that precisely. But that's not the same thing as saying it can't. See also: Whisper's Users May Not Be That Anonymous After All Last October, the Guardian ignited a privacy firestorm with a series of report that claimed Whisper monitors the whereabouts of users—even those who had specifically opted out of location sharing—and could track their position within a 500-meter radius. Much of the furor surrounds the fact that Whisper knows and stores its users' "IP addresses"—a numerical label that identifies a computer or smartphone to the Internet. At the time, Whisper acknowledged that it has access to and stores user IP addresses, but disputed the Guardian's specific claims that... - Web2024