Interview Azul, a provider of OpenJDK (Java runtime) builds, has introduced a "Cloud Native Compiler" which offers remote compilation of Java to native code, claiming it can reduce compute resources by up to 50 per cent. The Register asked Whisper's parent company, Media Lab, to explain how it makes that calculation. Some 9,000 users had a probability assessment of 100 per cent and another 10,000 were rated at 50 per cent, according to data provided by Ehrlich. The Whisper app also scores users on their likelihood to be a sexual predator, in the predator_probability data field. "It is not clear if all records have been kept, but a very overwhelming majority of them certainly have," he explained, pointing to an associated Amazon S3 bucket called "whisper-deleted.s3." and the presence of record types that store groups from which users have unsubscribed and previous usernames. He also points out that Whisper appears to have kept data since 2012 without deleting it. Given Whisper's financial ties to Tencent, which invested in the company in 2014, and reports that Chinese companies like Tencent work with Chinese government entities, Ehrlich said there was reason to be concerned.Īccording to Ehrlich, the database contains a significant amount of information associated with millions of minors who use the app, despite the fact that the app is only supposed to be available to those 17 or older.
Those records, in conjunction with geolocation data, might provide a way to infer membership in the military.
Among the records was a list of international military bases intended, as the Post tells it, for a never-realized suicide study.
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