The Weather Channel app unlawfully obtained user location data, says prosecutor
The Weather Channel app misled millions of users into allowing it to access their personal location data, profiting off of the data for commercial purposes, the city attorney of Los Angeles alleged in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
The Weather Channel app is one of the most popular weather services in the United States, and it’s rated number one in the iOS App Store in the weather category as of Friday morning. The app has been downloaded over 100 million times across operating systems and the Weather Company, the IBM-owned business, bolsters 45 million active monthly users.
In the lawsuit, the government claims that the Weather Company deceived users into turning on their location tracking, saying it would only be used to receive more...
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