www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html

[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        17/02/22 22:54:33

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        [#1196122] Add Vizio TV surveillance.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.92&r2=1.93

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.92
retrieving revision 1.93
diff -u -b -r1.92 -r1.93
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       23 Feb 2017 03:45:08 -0000      1.92
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       23 Feb 2017 03:54:33 -0000      1.93
@@ -879,6 +879,16 @@
 before Amazon &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs.</p>
 
 <ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>Vizio
+    &ldquo;smart&rdquo; <a 
href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/what-vizio-was-doing-behind-tv-screen";>TVs
+    report everything that is viewed on them, and not just broadcasts
+    and cable</a>. Even if the image is coming from the user's own
+    computer, the TV reports what it is. The existence of a way to
+    disable the surveillance, even if it were not hidden as it was in
+    these TVs, does not legitimize the surveillance.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>More or less all &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs <a href="
   
http://www.myce.com/news/reseachers-all-smart-tvs-spy-on-you-sony-monitors-all-channel-switches-72851/";>spy
   on their users</a>.</p>
@@ -1186,7 +1196,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/02/23 03:45:08 $
+$Date: 2017/02/23 03:54:33 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>