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Privacy weather app? (leminal.space)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by xorollo@leminal.space to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'd like to track hurricanes. All the apps I see collect all kinds of personal data. I just go to NOAA to see the advisories, but wondering if there is something better.

Edit: OS is Android 14 Edit: looking for radar (probably) or some other feature to track hurricanes (I don't know what tools there are besides radar, but if there's something else I'm interested).

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[-] Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Isn't it illegal for the NWS to make an weather app because of lobbyist?

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago
[-] Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Yea pretty mess up, your tax dollars pay for the data that weather apps use for free, then some of those apps charge you lol. It was a big issue when the Hawaiian fires happened.

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