Senator wants Whisper to explain how it tracks users, shares their data

Social media app Whisper, a supposedly anonymous way for users to post online confessions, is now facing privacy questions from a U.S. senator after reports that it tracks locations of users and has shared their information with other companies.

Whisper, which bills itself as the “safest place on the Internet,” has been tracking the locations of users it finds interesting and offered to share some user information with The Guardian, according to stories in the newspaper this month.

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