www/philosophy proprietary-surveillance.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/12/06 00:36:14

Modified files:
        philosophy     : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        More info on LG TV snooping.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       20 Nov 2013 01:50:36 -0000      1.18
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       6 Dec 2013 00:36:14 -0000       1.19
@@ -23,11 +23,19 @@
 href="https://www.eff.org/pages/reader-privacy-chart-2012";>
 they report even which page the user reads at what time</a>.
 </li>
-<li>Spyware in <a 
href="http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html";>
- LG &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs</a>.
+<li>Spyware
+in <a 
href="http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html";>
+LG &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs</a> reports what the user watches, and the
+switch to turn this off has no effect.  (The fact that the transmission 
reports a 404 error really means nothing;
+the server could save that data anyway.)
+<p> Even worse, it <a 
href="http://rambles.renney.me/2013/11/lg-tv-logging-filenames-from-network-folders/";>
+snoops on
+other devices</a> on the user's local network.
+</p>
 <p>
-The fact that the transmission reports a 404 error really means nothing;
-the server could save that data anyway.</p>
+LG later said it installed a patch to stop this, but it can happen in
+any product.
+</p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <a 
href="http://consumerman.com/Rent-to-own%20giant%20accused%20of%20spying%20on%20its%20customers.htm";>
@@ -152,7 +160,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/11/20 01:50:36 $
+$Date: 2013/12/06 00:36:14 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>