www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html

[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        18/04/22 12:12:25

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        [RT#1288502] Add android surveillance.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.176&r2=1.177

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.176
retrieving revision 1.177
diff -u -b -r1.176 -r1.177
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       9 Apr 2018 23:50:04 -0000       1.176
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       22 Apr 2018 16:12:23 -0000      1.177
@@ -339,6 +339,24 @@
 
 <ul>
 <li>
+  <p>More
+    than <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/16/child-apps-games-android-us-google-play-store-data-sharing-law-privacy";>50%
+    of the 5,855 Android apps studied by researchers were found to
+    snoop and collect information about its users</a>. 40% of the apps
+    were found to insecurely snitch on its users. Furthermore, they
+    could detect only some methods of snooping, in these proprietary
+    apps whose source code they cannot look at.  The other apps might
+    be snooping in other ways.</p>
+
+  <p>This is evidence that proprietary apps generally work against its
+    users. Android users must choose to use apps from the free
+    software only <a href="https://f-droid.org/";>F-Droid store</a>
+    that <a href="https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures";>
+    prominently warns the user if an app contains
+    anti-features</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
   <p>20 dishonest Android apps
       recorded <a 
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/stealthy-google-play-apps-recorded-calls-and-stole-e-mails-and-texts";>phone
       calls and sent them and text messages and emails to
@@ -1622,7 +1640,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/04/09 23:50:04 $
+$Date: 2018/04/22 16:12:23 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>