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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 02:26:21 AM
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The lawsuit alleges that the Weather Channel app misled users about why it was collecting their (extremely precise) geolocation data.
A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that the popular Weather Channel App misled its users about how it would use the personal – and extremely precise – location data that it collects.
IBM subsidiary The Weather Channel (TWC) markets its free app as the world’s most downloaded weather app, touting 45 million users monthly. However, a new lawsuit filed by the city attorney of Los Angeles claims that the app purposefully misinforms consumers about how it is utilizing their location data.
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