www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html

[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        16/11/18 05:39:09

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        [RT#1163562] Add 'Aggregate Information Collection' section.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.75&r2=1.76

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.75
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -u -b -r1.75 -r1.76
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       17 Nov 2016 03:01:06 -0000      1.75
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       18 Nov 2016 05:39:08 -0000      1.76
@@ -129,6 +129,28 @@
 keyboard, in the mobile computing industry, in the office, at home, in
 transportation systems, and in the classroom.</p>
 
+<h3 id="AggregateInfoCollection">Aggregate Information Collection</h3>
+
+<p>Many companies, in their privacy policy, have a clause that claims
+they share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with
+thirdparties/partners. Such claims are worthless, for several
+reasons:</p>
+
+<ul>
+    <li>They could change the policy at any time.</li>
+    <li>They can twist the words by distributing an "aggregate" of
+        "anonymized" data which can be reidentified and attributed to
+        individuals.</li>
+    <li>The raw data they don't normally distribute can be taken by
+        data breaches.</li>
+    <li>The raw data they don't normally distribute can be taken by
+        subpoena.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Therefore, we must never pay any attention to what companies say
+they will <em>do</em> with the data they collect. The wrong is that
+they collect it at all.</p>
+
 <h3 id="LatestAdditions">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <p>Latest additions are found on top under each category.</p>
@@ -1073,7 +1095,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/11/17 03:01:06 $
+$Date: 2016/11/18 05:39:08 $
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 </p>
 </div>