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August 24, 2017 06:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TKkh4nlB2ro/accuweather-updates-its-ios-app-to-address-privacy-outcry
AccuWeather Updates Its iOS App To Address Privacy Outcry
Taylor Hatmaker, writing for TechCrunch: Responding to privacy concerns, AccuWeather is out with a new version of its iOS app that removes a controversial data sharing behavior. Earlier this week, security researcher Will Strafach called attention to the practice in a post and users took to Twitter to announce their intention to dump the app in droves. "AccuWeather's app employed a Software Development Kit (SDK) from a third party vendor (Reveal Mobile) that inadvertently allowed Wi-Fi router data to be transmitted to this third-party vendor," the company wrote in a statement accompanying the app update. "Once we became aware of this situation we took immediate action to verify the operation and quickly disabled the SDK from the IOS app. Our next step was to update the IOS app and remove Reveal Mobile completely."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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