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

[Atul Murali]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Atul Murali <atulm>     17/04/07 00:48:59

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

Log message:
        [#1205748] Add Google Play tracking.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.111&r2=1.112
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.23&r2=1.24

Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.111
retrieving revision 1.112
diff -u -b -r1.111 -r1.112
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       5 Apr 2017 07:35:27 -0000       1.111
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       7 Apr 2017 04:48:58 -0000       1.112
@@ -322,6 +322,19 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>Google Play (a component of Android)
+    <a href="  
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/235594-yes-google-play-is-tracking-you-and-thats-just-the-tip-of-a-very-large-iceberg";>tracks
+    the users' movements without their permission</a>.</p>
+
+    <p>Even if you disable Google Maps and location tracking, you must
+         disable Google Play itself to completely stop the tracking. This is
+         yet another example of non-free software pretending to obey the user,
+         when it's actually doing something else. Such a thing would be almost
+         unthinkable with free software.</p>
+
+  </li>
+  
   <li><p>More than 73% of the most popular Android apps
   <a href="http://jots.pub/a/2015103001/index.php";>share personal,
   behavioral and location information</a> of their users with third 
parties.</p>
@@ -1249,7 +1262,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/04/05 07:35:27 $
+$Date: 2017/04/07 04:48:58 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: malware-mobiles.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- malware-mobiles.html        5 Apr 2017 07:35:27 -0000       1.23
+++ malware-mobiles.html        7 Apr 2017 04:48:58 -0000       1.24
@@ -131,6 +131,18 @@
 <h3 id="surveillance">Mobile Surveillance</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>
+  <p>Google Play (a component of Android)
+  <a href="    
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/235594-yes-google-play-is-tracking-you-and-thats-just-the-tip-of-a-very-large-iceberg";>tracks
+  the users' movements without their permission</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>Even if you disable Google Maps and location tracking, you must
+       disable Google Play itself to completely stop the tracking. This is
+       yet another example of non-free software pretending to obey the user,
+       when it's actually doing something else. Such a thing would be almost
+       unthinkable with free software.</p>
+
+</li>
+<li>
    <p>Verizon <a 
href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/30/0112259/verizon-to-force-appflash-spyware-on-android-phones";>
         announced an opt-in proprietary search app that it will</a>
         pre-install on some of its phones. The app will give Verizon the same
@@ -314,7 +326,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/04/05 07:35:27 $
+$Date: 2017/04/07 04:48:58 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>