I’ve had the same phone and this same government weather app for a few years…
Recently, when I open the app I get the message in the thread title…
The message disappears after a couple of seconds and the app opens. No big deal, but it’s strange to me. The app checks my location, but I’ve never gotten this message with any other app.
I’m wondering if there’s some setting that somehow got changed. Any guesses?
If it vibrates, DONT shut it off. 
Did you by any chance select the weather for the current location? I think that will give you the “not in Taiwan” error when you’re not in Taiwan.
Yes, I selected “current location” which is Taoyuan.
Ah, so you’re not actually outside Taiwan? 
Mhh, maybe your phone’s GPS is a bit slow and will initially send back a location outside Taiwan at first…
Why the fuck would they implement that message? Is the weather in Taiwan some kind of secret?
The message is coming from the app, so only their developers / team would know the reason. You could write to them.
I’m not sure about android but on iOS you can block the app from accessing location. Likely not what you want to do though.
It’s also possible they did something dumb like use the phone locale settings (en_us) to determine user location even if user is in Taiwan
That’s the definitely not spying on ou and recording your privacy comfort warning 
Do you normally give your location to apps/gov/service provider on your phone? Or at least give the permission to do so?
Could be you (or some program on your phone without your permission) turned off a tracking setting, like GPS, and this this got triggered once that setting was off. Then it dug deeper and realized…lol…we still know where you sleep…
I get it, but then again I am NOT in Taiwan at present. Could it be that it not only checks the GPS location but also the ISP and in my case both are not in Taiwan.
Could VPN perhaps have an effect for those in Taiwan?
Why does it matter though? Some developer in their team coded it this way. What are you trying to achieve by figuring out the answer?
This was my thought. Since it just started doing this a few days ago perhaps the app has been recently updated.
As I said in my original post, it doesn’t matter. I’m just wondering why this suddenly started happening.
Update: As a test, I changed the app’s language setting to Chinese. And sure enough, the message disappeared. It reappeared when I changed back to English. The mystery is over.
So even though my language setting has always been English, it appears that the developers recently changed something so that the “you’re not in Taiwan” message appears when the app is set to English. Seems presumptuous to assume that based on language and not on geographical location, but whatever.
