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AdultKing

01-15-2019 07:21 PM

'Tracking every place you go': Weather Channel app accused of selling user data

For everyone of these issues that becomes a 'scandal' there are dozens that just fly under the wire.

Quote:

People relied on the most popular mobile weather app to track forecasts that determined whether they chose jeans over shorts and packed a parka or umbrella, but its owners used it to track their every step and profit off that information, Los Angeles prosecutors said Friday.

The operator of the Weather Channel mobile app misled users who agreed to share their location information in exchange for personalized forecasts and alerts, and they instead unwittingly surrendered personal privacy when the company sold their data to third parties, the city attorney, Michael Feuer, said.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...n-data-selling

King Mark

01-15-2019 07:25 PM

I don't mind this. Weather channel is the best weather app. Gotta get this money somehow.

Diomed

01-15-2019 07:28 PM

One. World. To. Rule. Them. All.

BagOfDirtyAssholes

01-15-2019 07:47 PM

How is this adult related?