Los Angeles accuses The Weather Channel app in court of deceptively mining, selling user data

Los Angeles accuses The Weather Channel app in court of deceptively mining, selling user data

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/4/los-angeles-accuses-weather-channel-app-court-dece/

The city of Los Angeles sued the company behind The Weather Channel's mobile application Thursday, seeking potentially millions of dollars in penalties for quietly mining and selling users' geolocation data.

Filed in L.A. Superior Court, City Attorney Michael Feuer alleged in the 14-page complaint that TWC Product and Technology, LLC, a subsidiary of IBM that owns and operates The Weather Channel's mobile app, violated California's Unfair Competition Law by being "less than forthcoming" about the way it uses location data collected from the devices of its millions of users.

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