www/philosophy proprietary-surveillance.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/12/27 15:35:09

Modified files:
        philosophy     : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        Mention Snapchat surveillance.

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

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -b -r1.20 -r1.21
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       6 Dec 2013 17:38:17 -0000       1.20
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       27 Dec 2013 15:35:08 -0000      1.21
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@
 (The US says it will eventually require all new portable phones to
 have GPS.)
 </li>
+<li>The nonfree Snapchat app's principal purpose is to restrict the
+use of data on the user's computer, but it does surveillance too:
+<a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/27/snapchat-may-be-exposed-hackers";>
+it tries to get the user's list of other people's phone numbers.</a>
+</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>In addition, many web sites spy on their visitors.  Web sites are
@@ -114,6 +119,8 @@
 Google Analytics service, which <a
 
href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/434164/google_analytics_breaks_norwegian_privacy_laws_local_agency_said/";>
 tells Google the IP address and the page that was visited.</a></li>
+<li>Many web sites try to collect users' lists of phone numbers or
+email contacts.  This violates the privacy of anyone in those lists.
 </ul>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -171,7 +178,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/12/06 17:38:17 $
+$Date: 2013/12/27 15:35:08 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>