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

[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        17/01/17 22:07:22

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

Log message:
        [#1180622] Add Smart TV surveillance.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.84&r2=1.85
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-appliances.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.84
retrieving revision 1.85
diff -u -b -r1.84 -r1.85
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       30 Dec 2016 04:41:24 -0000      1.84
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       18 Jan 2017 03:07:22 -0000      1.85
@@ -858,6 +858,21 @@
 before Amazon &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs.</p>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><p>More or less all &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs <a href="
+  
http://www.myce.com/news/reseachers-all-smart-tvs-spy-on-you-sony-monitors-all-channel-switches-72851/";>spy
+  on their users</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>The report was as of 2014, but we don't expect this has got better.</p>
+
+    <p>This shows that laws requiring products to get users' formal
+      consent before collecting personal data are totally inadequate.
+      And what happens if a user declines consent?  Probably the TV
+      will say, &ldquo;Without your consent to tracking, the TV will
+      not work.&rdquo;</p>
+
+    <p>Proper laws would say that TVs are not allowed to report what
+      the user watches &mdash; no exceptions!</p>
+  </li>
   <li><p>Vizio goes a step further than other TV manufacturers in spying on 
       their users: their <a 
href="http://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-watching-you";>
       &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs analyze your viewing habits in detail and 
@@ -1143,7 +1158,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/12/30 04:41:24 $
+$Date: 2017/01/18 03:07:22 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: malware-appliances.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-appliances.html,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12
--- malware-appliances.html     17 Jan 2017 07:27:17 -0000      1.11
+++ malware-appliances.html     18 Jan 2017 03:07:22 -0000      1.12
@@ -32,6 +32,23 @@
 
 <ul>
 <li>
+<p>More or less all &ldquo;smart&rdquo; TVs <a href="
+  
http://www.myce.com/news/reseachers-all-smart-tvs-spy-on-you-sony-monitors-all-channel-switches-72851/";>spy
+  on their users</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The report was as of 2014, but we don't expect this has got
+better.</p>
+
+<p>This shows that laws requiring products to get users' formal
+consent before collecting personal data are totally inadequate.  And
+what happens if a user declines consent?  Probably the TV will say,
+&ldquo;Without your consent to tracking, the TV will not
+work.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>Proper laws would say that TVs are not allowed to report what the
+user watches &mdash; no exceptions!</p>
+</li>
+<li>
 <p>Some LG
 TVs <a href="http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Achievements";>are
 tyrants</a>.</p>
@@ -553,7 +570,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/01/17 07:27:17 $
+$Date: 2017/01/18 03:07:22 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>