Ben Holcomb
EF5
So this seems like a major invasion of privacy from accuweather. I'm not a fan of just sharing my location with apps to be shared with anyone and I imagine others aren't either.
Users dump AccuWeather iPhone app after learning it sends location data to a third party
AccuWeather’s iOS app may be up to something fishy. Security researcher Will Strafach published a warning about the popular weather app’s behavior on Medium and users appear to be paying attention.
According to Strafach’s Medium post, the AccuWeather app requests location permission from users not to provide customized location-based weather data but to send some quite specific geodata to a third-party company called RevealMobile.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/accuweather-revealmobile-ios/
Users dump AccuWeather iPhone app after learning it sends location data to a third party
AccuWeather’s iOS app may be up to something fishy. Security researcher Will Strafach published a warning about the popular weather app’s behavior on Medium and users appear to be paying attention.
According to Strafach’s Medium post, the AccuWeather app requests location permission from users not to provide customized location-based weather data but to send some quite specific geodata to a third-party company called RevealMobile.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/accuweather-revealmobile-ios/