Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data

Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by kevin_b_er on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:49AM (#18825441)

If you like it, do understand the Republican Party just last year nominated and voted in Berry Myers, the co-owner of AccuWeather, who spent years trying to prevent the NWS from publishing forecasts to you and the rest of the public, to head the agency in change of the NWS.

Your favored website may soon enough be taken down in order to enrich the Myers family, but it will be packaged as reducing costs or not "competing with industry" aka AccuWeather.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by vvanders on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:29PM (#18828331)

Damn, I had no idea that happened.

Stuff like this and the shenanigans at the FCC w/ Net Neutrality really makes me rethink the concept of these types appointments not having more public involvement.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by drited on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:45PM (#18839805)

There's a great Audible original piece on this topic written by Michael Lewis called 'The coming storm':

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by red_phone on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:12PM (#18826790)

If it gets taken down, he'll probably be able to find another one.

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Re:Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Minin... by abootstrapper on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:35PM (#18826993)

Accuweather perhaps?

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