Whisper, the Secret Sharing App, left user details online

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Years of sensitive data from Whisper users was left online. It included age, ethnicity, gender, hometown, nickname and any membership in groups

The records were viewable on a non-password-protected database open to the public Web. A Post reporter was able to freely browse and search through the records, many of which involved children: A search of users who had listed their age as 15 returned 1.3 million results.

[washingtonpost.com...]

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There seems to be a continuing trust of people in services on the internet which keep their private information private, where at the end the information comes out in the open anyway. It reminds me of Eric Schmidt saying in 2009

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.