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."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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