Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data

Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by tptacek on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:12AM (#18822133)

A pretty heft chunk of Michael Lewis's mini-book on corruption in the Trump administration centered on Accuweather's role at NOAA, and how companies like Accuweather do little more than repackage data generated by the federal government and pretend to be gatekeepers for it.

Supposedly, companies like Accuweather have been working for years to eliminate government weather services that are readily usable by consumers.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by metaphor on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:32AM (#18822205)

In support of the parent's remark, I highly recommend everyone read this excellent Bloomberg article[1] from last year which elaborates on the finer points. It surely made my blood boil at first blush.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by floatingatoll on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:31AM (#18822362)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464755

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by pnathan on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:16AM (#18822508)

Talking to people who had worked at higher levels of the weather world in government and academia, this is a generally common view of that kind of company.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by tk75x on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:01AM (#18846235)

Companies like Intuit have been working for years to prevent the government from having easy to use tax filing services. What else is new?

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