Associated Press via The Guardian; 'Tracking every place you go': Weather Channel app accused of selling user data
"“Think how Orwellian it feels to live in a world where a private
company is tracking potentially every place you go, every minute of
every day,” Feuer said. “If you want to sacrifice to that company that
information, you sure ought to be doing it with clear advanced notice of
what’s at stake.”
A spokesman for IBM, which owns the app, said it had always been
clear about the use of location data collected from users and will
vigorously defend its “fully appropriate” disclosures."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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