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Re: Is AWS Weatherbug spyware?
This subject came up on a weatherboard, several months ago. He is the direct posted response from the customer support manager......This is Jay, I am the Manager of Customer Support at WeatherBug and I’m on this bulleting board to clear up the misconception that WeatherBug is “spyware”, because it is just not true.
The short answer is simply this; WeatherBug is not spyware. We do not track websurfing habits or 'spy' on our user base. WeatherBug is not capable of tracking your overall web use or deciphering anything on your hard drive, nor can it determine what you were doing before you opened your WeatherBug program or after you closed it. Any software program that is implying or reporting WeatherBug as 'spyware' is incorrect.
But I think you should also know a little bit more about us than just me saying, “we’re not spyware.”
We partner with about 100 NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox televisions stations to stream live data into the weather segment of their newscasts. Our partners include the predominant stations in the major markets including WRC( NBC4) in Washington, D.C., WNBC in New York, and KPIX (CBS 5) in San Francisco, to name a few.
We also supply 6,000 schools with a K-12 curriculum that utilizes the data collected by our weather monitoring stations. Our CEO, Bob Marshall, received the 2001 ComputerWorld Smithsonian Laureate for developing this curriculum. OurWeatherNet curriculum was also distinguished as the Education Technology of the Year by Media and Methods magazine (an education publication).
We would never do anything to compromise the reputation of our product with the either of these important client groups, let alone the tens of millions who have downloaded and use our program every day.
Any program that reports WeatherBug as spyware (or a data-miner) is simply wrong. Sometimes spyware detection companies make mistakes, and we have occasionally seen WeatherBug get listed. Once we contact the company and they investigate us, they realize we are not spyware and remove us.
Can you please tell me which software you used so we can contact them?
P.S. if it's Ad-Aware- you need to run an update b/c the newest version has corrected an earlier error and does not list us as a possible dataminer.
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Jay
Customer Support Manager
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