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Title: AccuWeather for iOS caught sending your location to data monetizer Post by: HCK on August 23, 2017, 04:05:19 pm AccuWeather for iOS caught sending your location to data monetizer
AccuWeather, a popular climate and forecast app for iOS, has been caught sharing the private location information of its users with revealmobile .com, a data monetization company. Will Strafach, writing on Medium: The AccuWeather application for iOS requests location access under the premise of providing users localized severe weather alerts, critical updates, and faster launch time. Granting access to location information will also cause the application to send the following bits of information off to "revealmobile.com": Your precise GPS coordinates, including current speed and altitude. The name and "BSSID" of the Wi-Fi router you are currently connected to, which can be used for geolocation through various online services. Whether your device has bluetooth turned on or off. During a testing period of 36 hours, specifically while the AccuWeather application was not in the foreground, my test iPhone (located on a desk in an office building) sent the above information t... Source: AccuWeather for iOS caught sending your location to data monetizer (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/gXim4Uip3JU/accuweather-ios-caught-sending-location-data-monetizer) |