- BuzzFeed, Friday, March 13, 2015 11:48 AM
Guardian US is backing off many of the bolder accusations it made against secret-sharing app Whisper earlier this year. “Guardian US claimed that Whisper was tracking users’ locations
without their permission, effectively spying on them, and that it had updated its terms of service to notify users it was doing this in response to Guardian US reporting,” Buzzfeed reports. Now,
as the paper admits, the relevant IP address data is “a very rough and unreliable indicator of location,” i.e., it couldn’t really be used for spying.
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