IBM wants to use your cell phone data to create an ultra high-resolution weather forecast.
Most smartphones have a barometer inside, which is used to help your phone’s fitness tracker figure out how many stairs you climbed. It’s been a holy grail for meteorologists for years, because pressure provides clues about storms. But while accessing a network of tiny pressure sensors opens up a world of forecast improvements, it also raises privacy concerns, especially in this instance. Just last week, the Weather Channel app came under fire for allegedly deceiving users and collecting a ton of their data for TWC to profit off of.
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