PinkysPain
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

An AccuWeather app comes preinstalled on Samsung devices and neither the App nor the permission to access network data can be disabled (and you have to explicitly request “all permissions” to even see it has that permission).

There are general settings to disable an app’s ability to send data in the background, but since it lies and shows zero mobile data used regardless of refreshing I have very little confidence in that.

It would be interesting to know whether the Samsung app sends this data as well, if so they have been selling their user’s location data for years.

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