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From: Félicien PILLOT
Subject: www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:20:36 -0400 (EDT)

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     FĂ©licien PILLOT <felandral>     17/03/18 09:20:36

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        [#1200539] Merge three related items

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.104&r2=1.105

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.104
retrieving revision 1.105
diff -u -b -r1.104 -r1.105
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       17 Mar 2017 18:48:45 -0000      1.104
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       18 Mar 2017 13:20:35 -0000      1.105
@@ -659,41 +659,44 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul>
-  <li><p>We-Vibe made a &ldquo;smart&rdquo; vibrator with an app that <a
-href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits";>
-       told the company how people were using it</a>.</p></li>
+  <li>
+    <p>A computerized vibrator
+      <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/10/vibrator-phone-app-we-vibe-4-plus-bluetooth-hack";>
+       was snooping on its users through the proprietary control app</a>.</p>
   
-  <li><p> &ldquo;CloudPets&rdquo; toys with microphones
-      <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/cloudpets-data-breach-leaks-details-of-500000-children-and-adults";>leak
 childrens' conversations to the
-       manufacturer</a>. Guess what?
-      <a 
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/internet-of-things-teddy-bear-leaked-2-million-parent-and-kids-message-recordings";>Crackers
 found a way to access the data</a>
-      collected by the manufacturer's snooping.</p>
+    <p>The app reported the temperature of the vibrator minute by
+      minute (thus, indirectly, whether it was surrounded by a person's
+      body), and the vibration frequency.</p>
 
-    <p>That the manufacturer and the FBI could listen to these conversations
-      was unacceptable by itself.</p></li>
+    <p>Note the totally inadequate proposed response: a labeling
+      standard with which manufacturers would make statements about
+      their products, rather than free software which users can check
+      and change.</p>
   
-   <li><p>A company that makes internet-controlled vibrators <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/wevibe-sex-toy-data-collection-chicago-lawsuit";>is
-    being sued for collecting lots of personal information about how
+    <p>The company that made the vibrator
+      <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/wevibe-sex-toy-data-collection-chicago-lawsuit";>
+       was sued for collecting lots of personal information about how
     people use it</a>.</p>
 
        <p>The company's statement that it anonymizes the data may be
         true, but it doesn't really matter. If it sells the data to a
         data broker, the data broker can figure out who the user is.</p>
+    
+    <p>Following this lawsuit,
+      <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits";>
+       the company has been ordered to pay a total of C$4m</a>
+      to its customers.</p>
   </li>
 
-  <li><p>A computerized
-        vibrator <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/10/vibrator-phone-app-we-vibe-4-plus-bluetooth-hack";>snoops
-        on its users through the proprietary control app</a>.</p>
+  <li><p> &ldquo;CloudPets&rdquo; toys with microphones
+      <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/cloudpets-data-breach-leaks-details-of-500000-children-and-adults";>leak
 childrens' conversations to the
+       manufacturer</a>. Guess what?
+      <a 
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/internet-of-things-teddy-bear-leaked-2-million-parent-and-kids-message-recordings";>Crackers
 found a way to access the data</a>
+      collected by the manufacturer's snooping.</p>
 
-      <p>The app reports the temperature of the vibrator minute by
-      minute (thus, indirectly, whether it is surrounded by a person's
-      body), and the vibration frequency.</p>
+    <p>That the manufacturer and the FBI could listen to these conversations
+      was unacceptable by itself.</p></li>
 
-      <p>Note the totally inadequate proposed response: a labeling
-      standard with which manufacturers would make statements about
-      their products, rather than free software which users can check
-      and change.</p>
-  </li>
   <li><p>Barbie
       <a 
href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/wi-fi-spy-barbie-records-childrens-5177673";>is
 going to spy on children and adults.</a>.</p>
   </li>
@@ -1221,7 +1224,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/03/17 18:48:45 $
+$Date: 2017/03/18 13:20:35 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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