Weather app shouldn't use GeoIP for user location detection
Bug #1370582 reported by
Nekhelesh Ramananthan
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Weather App |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Victor Thompson | ||
Bug Description
At the moment the weather app uses both GPS and GeoIP as location sources to get the user's location. While this provides redundancy and improves the reliability of retrieving the user's location, it also breaches the user's privacy. I can imagine users turning of the location-services from the location indicator in the top panel which should be respected by applications. However the weather won't respect that setting since it uses GeoIP.
Related branches
lp:~vthompson/ubuntu-weather-app/reboot-location-qml
- Martin Borho: Approve
- Andrew Hayzen: Approve
- Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (community): Approve
- Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot: Approve (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 110 lines (+73/-1)4 files modifiedapp/components/CurrentLocation.qml (+62/-0)
app/ubuntu-weather-app.qml (+4/-0)
app/ui/LocationsPage.qml (+4/-0)
ubuntu-weather-app.apparmor (+3/-1)
| Changed in ubuntu-weather-app: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in ubuntu-weather-app: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| assignee: | nobody → Victor Thompson (vthompson) |
| milestone: | none → 2.0 |
| Changed in ubuntu-weather-app: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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