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From: hellekin
Subject: www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:05:41 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     hellekin <hellekin>     15/11/26 15:05:41

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-surveillance.html 

Log message:
        Add Facebook Magic Photo spyware (refs #1060569)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -b -r1.30 -r1.31
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       26 Nov 2015 14:26:11 -0000      1.30
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       26 Nov 2015 15:05:41 -0000      1.31
@@ -339,6 +339,19 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><p>Facebook's app has started scanning photos people take with their 
mobiles.
+
+      
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/facebook_scans_camera_for_your_friends/
+
+      The article says "camera", but that word is misleading; cameras do not
+      have a Facebook app installed in them. This applies only to phones and
+      tablets.
+
+      I suspect the face recognition is done by sending the photos to
+      a Facebook server. If so, the server could do other things with
+      those photos. It could save them and send them to Big Brother.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>According to Edward Snowden,
       <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34444233";>agencies can take over 
smartphones</a>
       by sending hidden text messages which enable them to turn the phones
@@ -394,6 +407,17 @@
 
 <ul>
 
+  <li><p>Facebook's app has started <a 
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/facebook_scans_camera_for_your_friends/";>scanning
 photos people take</a> with their mobiles.</p>
+
+    <p>The article says "camera", but that word is misleading; cameras
+      do not have a Facebook app installed in them. This applies only
+      to phones and tablets.</p>
+
+    <p>I suspect the face recognition is done by sending the photos to
+      a Facebook server. If so, the server could do other things with
+      those photos. It could save them and send them to Big Brother.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li><p>Like most &ldquo;music screaming&rdquo; disservices, Spotify
       is based on proprietary malware (DRM and snooping). In August
       2015 it <a
@@ -683,6 +707,7 @@
    but the surveillance is an abuse all the same.</p>
 
 <ul>
+
   <li><p><a 
href="http://japandailypress.com/government-warns-agencies-against-using-chinas-baidu-application-after-data-transmissions-discovered-2741553/";>
       Baidu's Japanese-input and Chinese-input apps spy on users.</a></p>
   </li>
@@ -806,7 +831,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/11/26 14:26:11 $
+$Date: 2015/11/26 15:05:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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