![]() ![]() Rooms, at the same time, coming from Facebook raises more questions than addresses users' need for privacy and anonymity. Yik Yak might have been the least stained of them all, with bullying being the major problem. Secret appeared in a very bad position with the bullying issue, and even got banned in some countries, while its anonymity can be easily hacked. Whisper has been unmasked for tracking and storing user locations, investigating on users with posts Whisper deemed as newsworthy, and cooperating closely with Pentagon. After the major surveillance and snooping revelations, more users have become privacy-concerned, but a lot remained illiterate about what to look for in a tech product, if privacy and security is your concern.Īs a result, we have witnessed an avalanche of 'secure' apps - Secret, Whisper, Yik Yak, and now Facebook's Rooms - that wear false flags of anonymity and, as a result, privacy. ![]() This is what we see in tech industry all the time, especially in the post-Snowden era. There is a technology in social sciences sometimes referred to as notion substitution, when someone tries to persuade you that something is what it actually is not. ![]()
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