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Law Enforcement use this app to entrap people be afraid very afraid to meet up + go to jail for up to 10 years In May 2015, a 15-year-old girl from Bolton, Massachusetts was charged with making a threat on Whisper towards a school, referencing the [[Columbine shootings]]; she was tracked down using Whisper and GPS.{{cite news |url=http://www.wcvb.com/news/police-teenage-girl-made-columbine-threat-to-school/33276352 |title=Teenage Girl Makes Columbine Threat to School |publisher=WCBV TV |date=May 29, 2015 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141805/http://www.wcvb.com/news/police-teenage-girl-made-columbine-threat-to-school/33276352 |url-status=live }}
Law Enforcement use this app to entrap people be afraid very afraid to meet up + go to jail for up to 10 years In May 2015, a 15-year-old girl from Bolton, Massachusetts was charged with making a threat on Whisper towards a school, referencing the [[Columbine shootings]]; she was tracked down using Whisper and GPS.{{cite news |url=http://www.wcvb.com/news/police-teenage-girl-made-columbine-threat-to-school/33276352 |title=Teenage Girl Makes Columbine Threat to School |publisher=WCBV TV |date=May 29, 2015 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141805/http://www.wcvb.com/news/police-teenage-girl-made-columbine-threat-to-school/33276352 |url-status=live }}
In July 2018, a 31-year-old man from Toronto, Ontario, Canada allegedly met a 15-year-old girl using Whisper and was charged with luring a child, two counts of sexual assault and other charges, including possession of child pornography.{{cite news |first1=Armina |last1=Ligaya |first2=Liam |last2=Casey |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/bank-employee-charged-with-child-luring-sexual-assault-in-toronto-1.4009394 |title=Bank employee charged with child luring, sexual assault in Toronto |publisher=CTV News |agency=The Canadian Press |date=July 11, 2018 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006075242/https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/bank-employee-charged-with-child-luring-sexual-assault-in-toronto-1.4009394 |url-status=live }}
In July 2018, a 31-year-old man from Toronto, Ontario, Canada allegedly met a 15-year-old girl using Whisper and was charged with luring a child, two counts of sexual assault and other charges, including possession of child pornography.{{cite news |first1=Armina |last1=Ligaya |first2=Liam |last2=Casey |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/bank-employee-charged-with-child-luring-sexual-assault-in-toronto-1.4009394 |title=Bank employee charged with child luring, sexual assault in Toronto |publisher=CTV News |agency=The Canadian Press |date=July 11, 2018 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006075242/https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/bank-employee-charged-with-child-luring-sexual-assault-in-toronto-1.4009394 |url-status=live }}
Android and iOS mobile app
| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | ,
United States |
| Owners | Brad Brooks, Michael Heyward |
| Website | Official website  |
Whisper is a proprietary Android mobile app (formerly available on iOS) available without charge. It is a form of anonymous social media, allowing users to post and share photo and video messages anonymously,[4][5] although this claim has been challenged with privacy concerns over Whisper’s handling of user data.[6] The postings, called “whispers”, consist of text superimposed over an image, and the background imagery is either automatically retrieved from Whisper’s search engine or uploaded by the user.[7][8][9] The app, launched in March 2012, is the main product of the media company WhisperText LLC, which was co-founded by CEO Michael Heyward, the son of the entertainment executive Andy Heyward,[10] and Brad Brooks, who is the CEO of mobile messaging service TigerText. Since 2015, the service has sought to become more of a brand advertising platform, with promotional partnerships with Netflix,[11] NBCUniversal,[12] Disney,[13] HBO,[14] and MTV.[15] According to TechCrunch, as of March 2017, Whisper has a total of 17 billion monthly pageviews on its mobile and desktop websites, social channels and publisher network, with 250 million monthly users across 187 countries.[16] It is owned by MediaLab.[17] In October 2022, Whisper was removed from the Apple App Store, but continues to be available in the Google Play Store.
Features[edit]
Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic describes the service as follows:
Anyone can post an anonymous message to the service in the form of an image macro: text overlaid on a picture….
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