Tuesday, August 22, 2017

AccuWeather found Sending User Location Details Even if Location Sharing Turned Off

Security researcher Will Strafach identified that famous Weather App AccuWeather sending geolocation data to third party data mining firm.
He intercepted the traffic with the latest version of AccuWeather from his iPhone and it appears Wi-Fi router name and its unique MAC address to the servers of data monetization even if the App not permitted for sharing location OR even when the user has switched off location sharing.

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