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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/proprietary proprietary.html |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Jan 2019 04:49:29 -0500 (EST) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/01/06 04:49:29
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary.html
Log message:
Add Weather Channel spying (RT #1347690).
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.60&r2=1.61
Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.60
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -b -r1.60 -r1.61
--- proprietary.html 5 Jan 2019 11:06:21 -0000 1.60
+++ proprietary.html 6 Jan 2019 09:49:29 -0000 1.61
@@ -143,6 +143,18 @@
<h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201901050">
+ <p>The Weather Channel app <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/04/weather-channel-app-lawsuit-location-data-selling">
+ stored users' locations to the company's server</a>. The company is
+ being sued, demanding that it notify the users of what it will do
+ with the data.</p>
+
+ <p>I think that lawsuit is about a side issue. What the company does
+ with the data is a secondary issue. The principal wrong here is that
+ the company gets that data at all.</p>
+ </li>
+
<li id="M201812300">
<p>New GM cars <a
href="https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gmc/vehicles/canyon/2019.html">
@@ -211,19 +223,6 @@
abstraction and can't be affected by physical action.</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
-
- <li id="M201810300">
- <p>Nearly all “home security cameras” <a
-
href="https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/d-link-camera-poses-data-security-risk--consumer-reports-finds/">
- give the manufacturer an unencrypted copy of everything they
- see</a>. “Home insecurity camera” would be a better
- name!</p>
-
- <p>When Consumer Reports tested them, it suggested that these
- manufacturers promise not to look at what's in the videos. That's not
- security for your home. Security means making sure they don't get to
- see through your camera.</p>
- </li>
</ul>
@@ -284,7 +283,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/01/05 11:06:21 $
+$Date: 2019/01/06 09:49:29 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/proprietary proprietary.html,
Therese Godefroy <=