Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data

Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by unholythree on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:56PM (#18822066)

Funny you mention it, forecast.weather.gov is now the first link on my phone browser's start page. I made the switch after the wunderground app started refusing to update and otherwise glitched out constantly. The only downside is I have to actively think check the weather in the morning rather than just have it presented.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by dawnerd on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:19AM (#18822518)

It sucks how badly wunderground has gotten. I run my own weather station and it only syncs to WU. Almost tempted to intercept the api calls and store the data locally...

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by Ice_cream_suit on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:31AM (#18822850)

Weather Underground is yet another IBM company. So is Weather Channel.

"On October 28, 2015 IBM officially announced an agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s business-to-business, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including Weather Underground, WSI, weather.com, and also the Weather Company brand."

IBM buys firms and then proceeds to eviscerate them. Value destruction is their strong suit.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by jrnichols on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:13PM (#18834607)

"Storm" used to be a GREAT weather app, until they basically just ruined it and then forced people over to the Wunderground app. Which is also pretty bad.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by mistrial9 on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:16PM (#18826822)

I suspect that a company the size of IBM can do positive things, too.. so, lets not curse the situation, eh?

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