AccuWeather App Sends Location Data When Sharing is Off
ZDNet
Popular weather app, Accuweather, has been accused of sharing users' location data even when they opt out. This news comes after customers learned that 500 apps in Google's Play Market contained backdoors that allowed developers to install spyware. Researchers were able to use the same data collected by Accuweather to locate a phone within a few meters. He Tried To Silence Witnesses To His Crimes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Eddie Powe told the police who had shot him just before he died on a Milwaukee street in a dispute involving women, drugs and money. But the authorities needed more than his dying words, they needed to find eyewitnesses. The shooter Powe named had the same idea, and he hunted them down with deadly intent. Six-Figure Pensions Rising in Georgia
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The number of Georgia retired university employees, teachers and state employees receiving pensions of more than $100,000 a year has more than doubled in the past six years. But state law prevents the public from going online and looking up who any of those retirees are, despite massive taxpayer investment in the fund. New York's Tenant To Homeless Pipeline
New York Review of Books
Today's tenant may be tomorrow's homeless person in New York City, as the rise of new global capital and private equity firms as well as old rent stabilization laws are making the city unaffordable for many residents. Canada: Police Crack Largest Child Pornography Ring
The Walrus
Azov Films exploited a "grey area" in child porn law that seemingly allowed images of nude children that are only sexual by context. Detectives in Toronto took down the company and uncovered over 10,000 customer names and addresses in ninety countries. Over 386 children were saved from more harm, but the head of Azov might be out of jail as early as January 2018. What the Butler Saw at the Plaza
Bloomberg
Drawing rose-scented baths, delivering condoms without interruption, searching for chocolate covered blueberries and calming down a guest thrown into hysterics because her daughter had to blow her nose into toilet paper- where's the Kleenex! - such is the life of the 11 butlers who work at the Plaza Hotel. | 
