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Comment Re:And then......... (Score 1) 349

by Matt Singer on Thursday August 24, 2017 @03:39PM (#55077565) Attached to: JavaScript Is Eating The World

But Rust Never Sleeps

AccuWeather Updates Its iOS App To Address Privacy Outcry (techcrunch.com) 54

Posted by msmash on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:20PM from the please-forgive-us dept.

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."

Comment Save The Planet (Score 1) 430

by Matt Singer on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:35AM (#54939811) Attached to: Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study

So we should destroy all animal life to save the planet.

Comment Speed ain't everything (Score 5, Insightful) 105

by Matt Singer on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:29AM (#53831989) Attached to: Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US

Speed doesn't matter is you have "zero bars"

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