Article 3038G AccuWeather: Our app slurped your phone's location via Wi-Fi but we like totally didn't use it

AccuWeather: Our app slurped your phone's location via Wi-Fi but we like totally didn't use it

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Story ImageTotally didn't use that info while totally rewriting its code

A day after a security researcher criticized AccuWeather for collecting people's location data - even if its users refused to grant permission to do - the weather forecasting company and its ad tech partner Reveal Mobile denied violating permission settings while also revising the app's info-grabbing code."

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