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The Weather Channel app settles suit over selling location data - 9to5Mac:
IBM and the Los Angeles city attorney's office have settled a privacy lawsuit brought after The Weather Channel app was found to be selling user location data without proper disclosure. The lawsuit was filed last year, at which point the app had 45 million active users.
[...] The dispute centers on how users were informed. iOS requires apps to use a permission request system built into iOS, and they must specify the reason they want location access. However, the text is provided by the app, and The Weather Channel text said only that it was to provide local forecasts and alerts.
[...] It made no mention of the fact that user location data would also be sold. Despite this, IBM claimed that it was 'transparent' about what it was doing with the data.
[...] The reality, however, was that this disclosure was made only within a 10,000 word privacy policy that it knew almost nobody ever reads.
Additional coverage at TheVerge, threatpost, and NBC Los Angeles.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday August 25 2020, @01:15AM
Umm, they do see it, and like myself have no issue with it. I do have issues with entitled people. People who think "hey, this company is going to pay to develop and maintain the app, pay for the infrastructure for it, pay to find out the actual data to populate into the app, and I'm entitled to it for free."
Are you one of the guys complaining that housing is a right, so someone who worked, saved, and bought a house must now let you live there free? I bet you are. How's your blm cause going - have you trashed some soccer mom cars today so they can't get to work or block any public roads?
I don't like being tracked (mainly because it eats extra battery) so I don't have an app like this. I just have a google shortcut to "weather chicago" and I press it when I want to know. You however I guess are entitled to have some private company make an app for you. Because you're special. In a short bus kinda way.