www/philosophy/proprietary proprietary-surveill...

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/02/17 23:19:12

Modified files:
        philosophy/proprietary: proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        Mention Samsung smart tvs.  Minor cleanup.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.23&r2=1.24

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       1 Jan 2015 16:55:56 -0000       1.23
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       17 Feb 2015 23:19:12 -0000      1.24
@@ -451,6 +451,13 @@
       <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/nov/09/amazon-echo-smart-tv-watching-listening-surveillance";>is
       watching and listening all the time</a>.</p>
   </li>
+  <li><p>The Samsung &ldquo;Smart&rdquo; TV
+      <a 
href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/02/who-s-the-third-party-that-samsung-and-lg-smart-tvs-are-sharing-your-voice-data-with/index.htm";>transmits
 users' voice on the internet to another
+       company, Nuance</a>.  Nuance can save it and would then have to
+      give it to the US or some other government.</p>
+      <p>Speech recognition is not to be trusted unless it is done
+       by free software in your own computer.</p>
+  </li>
   <li><p>Spyware in
       <a 
href="http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html";>
       LG &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs</a> reports what the user watches, and 
@@ -462,10 +469,10 @@
       <a 
href="http://rambles.renney.me/2013/11/lg-tv-logging-filenames-from-network-folders/";>
       snoops on other devices on the user's local network.</a></p>
 
-      <p>LG later said it installed a patch to stop this, but it can
-      happen in any product.</p>
+      <p>LG later said it had installed a patch to stop this, but any product
+      could spy this way.</p>
 
-      <p>However, LG TVs
+      <p>Meanwhile, LG TVs
       <a 
href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140511/17430627199/lg-will-take-smart-out-your-smart-tv-if-you-dont-agree-to-share-your-viewing-search-data-with-third-parties.shtml";>
 do lots of spying anyway</a>.</p>
   </li>
 </ul>
@@ -599,7 +606,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/01/01 16:55:56 $
+$Date: 2015/02/17 23:19:12 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>