www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html m...

[Atul Murali]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Atul Murali <atulm>     17/04/24 03:47:38

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 
                         malware-appliances.html 

Log message:
        [#1209313] Add Bose headphone spyware.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.118&r2=1.119
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-appliances.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.20&r2=1.21

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.118
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -u -b -r1.118 -r1.119
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       19 Apr 2017 07:03:43 -0000      1.118
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       24 Apr 2017 07:47:37 -0000      1.119
@@ -1062,6 +1062,20 @@
 <div style="clear: left;"></div>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><p>Users are suing Bose for <a 
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/19/bose-headphones-have-been-spying-on-their-customers-lawsuit-claims/";>distributing
 a spyware app for its headphones</a>.
+                       Specifically, the app would record the names of the 
audio files
+                       users listen to along with the headphone's unique 
serial number.
+                       </p>
+
+           <p>The suit accuses that this was done without the users' consent.
+                       If the fine print of the app said that users gave 
consent for this,
+           would that make it acceptable? No way! It should be flat out
+      <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html";>
+           illegal to design the app to snoop at all</a>.
+                       </p>
+
+       </li>
+       
   <li><p>Many 
       <a 
href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/12/29/how-much-data-are-video-games-collecting-about-you.html/";>
       video game consoles snoop on their users and report to the 
@@ -1295,7 +1309,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/04/19 07:03:43 $
+$Date: 2017/04/24 07:47:37 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: malware-appliances.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-appliances.html,v
retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -b -r1.20 -r1.21
--- malware-appliances.html     14 Apr 2017 06:56:41 -0000      1.20
+++ malware-appliances.html     24 Apr 2017 07:47:37 -0000      1.21
@@ -31,6 +31,21 @@
 <p>Here are examples of malware in appliances.</p>
 
 <ul>
+
+<li><p>Users are suing Bose for <a 
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/19/bose-headphones-have-been-spying-on-their-customers-lawsuit-claims/";>distributing
 a spyware app for its headphones</a>.
+Specifically, the app would record the names of the audio files
+users listen to along with the headphone's unique serial number.
+</p>
+
+<p>The suit accuses that this was done without the users' consent.
+If the fine print of the app said that users gave consent for this,
+would that make it acceptable? No way! It should be flat out
+<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html";>
+illegal to design the app to snoop at all</a>.
+</p>
+
+</li>
+
 <li>
   <p>Anova sabotaged users' cooking devices with a downgrade that
   tethered them to a remote server. <a 
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/04/12/anova-ticks-off-customers-by-requiring-mandatory-accounts-to-cook-food/#more-10275062";>Unless
 users create an account on Anova's servers, their
@@ -591,7 +606,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/04/14 06:56:41 $
+$Date: 2017/04/24 07:47:37 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>