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iOS’ Weather app uses The Weather Channel as data source. Does anybody know if Apple acts as a proxy and obscures personally identifiable information?
by tqkxzugoaupvwqr 8y ago
iOS’ Weather app uses The Weather Channel as data source. Does anybody know if Apple acts as a proxy and obscures personally identifiable information?
- floatingatoll 8y agoApple does not act as a proxy. Their app transmits lat/long to api.weather.com. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822350
- matthewdgreen 8y agoThis still leaves two open questions: 1. Does Apple’s contract with TWC allow them to market individual-level data to advertisers in the same way that TWC can with their own app? It would be shocking if the answer was “yes”. 2. To what level of resolution is the default Weather app lat/long data, compared to third party apps?