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08-23-2017, 08:30 PM
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AccuWeather: Our app slurped your phone's location via Wi-Fi but we like totally didn't use it (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNEiWXL6wjdiCFyS0kbEDChNSC5yyA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779585979298&ei=QuadWfCeL9jKqALh3Ii4BA&url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/23/accuweather_says_ignorance_of_location_data_preclu des_misuse/)
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"Other data, such as Wi-Fi network information that is not user information, was for a short period available on the Reveal SDK, but was unused by AccuWeather. In fact, AccuWeather was unaware the data was available to it. Accordingly, at no point was ...
AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNE2HrgV-BmTMzm--QtAgaS5Nnqhhg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779585979298&ei=QuadWfCeL9jKqALh3Ii4BA&url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/accuweather-caught-sending-geo-location-data-even-when-denied-access/)ZDNet

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