The Guardian retracts claims about anonymous app Whisper violating user privacy

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by Sindy Cator on March 11, 2015 at 9:02 pm

Late last year, The Guardian posted a series of articles about Whisper, an anonymous app that allowed users to share messages anonymously. Today, it’s posted a lengthy retraction of portions of a later story and has even taken down some of its reporting. The original scoop said that despite Whisper’s claims of not tracking its users, the company knew their precise location and was even sharing it with some authorities in the US. The Guardian said in its retraction some claims were not accurate, for example: “We reported that IP addresses can only provide an approximate indication of a person’s whereabouts, not usually…