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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 “smart” 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> “CloudPets” 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$4m</a>
+ to its customers.</p>
</li>
- <li><p>A computerized
- vibrator <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/10/vibrator-phone-app-we-vibe-4-plus-bluetooth-hack">snoops
- on its users through the proprietary control app</a>.</p>
+ <li><p> “CloudPets” toys with microphones
+ <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/cloudpets-data-breach-leaks-details-of-500000-children-and-adults">leak
childrens' conversations to the
+ manufacturer</a>. Guess what?
+ <a
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/internet-of-things-teddy-bear-leaked-2-million-parent-and-kids-message-recordings">Crackers
found a way to access the data</a>
+ collected by the manufacturer's snooping.</p>
- <p>The app reports the temperature of the vibrator minute by
- minute (thus, indirectly, whether it is surrounded by a person's
- body), and the vibration frequency.</p>
+ <p>That the manufacturer and the FBI could listen to these conversations
+ was unacceptable by itself.</p></li>
- <p>Note the totally inadequate proposed response: a labeling
- standard with which manufacturers would make statements about
- their products, rather than free software which users can check
- and change.</p>
- </li>
<li><p>Barbie
<a
href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/wi-fi-spy-barbie-records-childrens-5177673">is
going to spy on children and adults.</a>.</p>
</li>
@@ -1221,7 +1224,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/03/17 18:48:45 $
+$Date: 2017/03/18 13:20:35 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html,
Félicien PILLOT <=
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