www/proprietary malware-mobiles.html proprietar...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/04/09 03:28:32

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-mobiles.html 
                         proprietary-surveillance.html proprietary.html 
        proprietary/workshop: mal.rec 

Log message:
        Spying by preinstalled apps (www-discuss 2019-04-08).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.92&r2=1.93
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.258&r2=1.259
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.107&r2=1.108
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.70&r2=1.71

Patches:
Index: malware-mobiles.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html,v
retrieving revision 1.92
retrieving revision 1.93
diff -u -b -r1.92 -r1.93
--- malware-mobiles.html        2 Apr 2019 00:54:35 -0000       1.92
+++ malware-mobiles.html        9 Apr 2019 07:28:32 -0000       1.93
@@ -379,6 +379,16 @@
 <h3 id="surveillance">Mobile Surveillance</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201903251">
+    <p>Many Android phones come with a huge number of <a
+    
href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/22/inenglish/1553244778_819882.html";>
+    preinstalled nonfree apps that have access to sensitive data without
+    users' knowledge</a>. These hidden apps may either call home with
+    the data, or pass it on to user-installed apps that have access to
+    the network but no direct access to the data. This results in massive
+    surveillance on which the user has absolutely no control.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201903201">
     <p>A study of 24 &ldquo;health&rdquo; apps found that 19 of them <a
     
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pan9e8/health-apps-can-share-your-data-everywhere-new-study-shows";>
@@ -1010,7 +1020,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/04/02 00:54:35 $
+$Date: 2019/04/09 07:28:32 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.258
retrieving revision 1.259
diff -u -b -r1.258 -r1.259
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       5 Apr 2019 09:59:38 -0000       1.258
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       9 Apr 2019 07:28:32 -0000       1.259
@@ -768,6 +768,16 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201903251">
+    <p>Many Android phones come with a huge number of <a
+    
href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/22/inenglish/1553244778_819882.html";>
+    preinstalled nonfree apps that have access to sensitive data without
+    users' knowledge</a>. These hidden apps may either call home with
+    the data, or pass it on to user-installed apps that have access to
+    the network but no direct access to the data. This results in massive
+    surveillance on which the user has absolutely no control.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201903201">
     <p>A study of 24 &ldquo;health&rdquo; apps found that 19 of them <a
     
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pan9e8/health-apps-can-share-your-data-everywhere-new-study-shows";>
@@ -2248,7 +2258,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/04/05 09:59:38 $
+$Date: 2019/04/09 07:28:32 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.107
retrieving revision 1.108
diff -u -b -r1.107 -r1.108
--- proprietary.html    5 Apr 2019 09:59:38 -0000       1.107
+++ proprietary.html    9 Apr 2019 07:28:32 -0000       1.108
@@ -146,6 +146,16 @@
 <h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M201903251">
+    <p>Many Android phones come with a huge number of <a
+    
href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/22/inenglish/1553244778_819882.html";>
+    preinstalled nonfree apps that have access to sensitive data without
+    users' knowledge</a>. These hidden apps may either call home with
+    the data, or pass it on to user-installed apps that have access to
+    the network but no direct access to the data. This results in massive
+    surveillance on which the user has absolutely no control.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201903290">
     <p>Tesla cars collect lots of personal data, and <a
     
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html";>
@@ -184,28 +194,6 @@
     passengers, other than proprietary software which Volvo&mdash;or
     various governments and criminals&mdash;could change at any time.</p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M201704131">
-    <p>Low-priced Chromebooks for schools are <a
-    href="https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy";>
-    collecting far more data on students than is necessary, and store
-    it indefinitely</a>. Parents and students complain about the lack
-    of transparency on the part of both the educational services and the
-    schools, the difficulty of opting out of these services, and the lack
-    of proper privacy policies, among other things.</p>
-
-    <p>But complaining is not sufficient. Parents, students and teachers
-    should realize that the software Google uses to spy on students is
-    nonfree, so they can't verify what it really does. The only remedy is
-    to persuade school officials to <a href="/education/edu-schools.html">
-    exclusively use free software</a> for both education and school
-    administration. If the school is run locally, parents and teachers
-    can mandate their representatives at the School Board to refuse the
-    budget unless the school initiates a switch to free software. If
-    education is run nation-wide, they need to persuade legislators
-    (e.g., through free software organizations, political parties,
-    etc.) to migrate the public schools to free software.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -266,7 +254,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/04/05 09:59:38 $
+$Date: 2019/04/09 07:28:32 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.70
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -b -r1.70 -r1.71
--- workshop/mal.rec    5 Apr 2019 09:59:38 -0000       1.70
+++ workshop/mal.rec    9 Apr 2019 07:28:32 -0000       1.71
@@ -25,6 +25,21 @@
 ####    Please don't remove the blank line after this marker!    ####
 # ADD NEW BLURB HERE
 
+Added: 2019-04-09
+Id: 201903251
+RT: www-discuss 2019-04-08 (surveillance)
+PubDate: 2019-03-25
+Target: proprietary-surveillance.html SpywareInMobileApps
+Target: malware-mobiles.html surveillance
+Keywords:
+Blurb: <p>Many Android phones come with a huge number of <a
++   
href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/22/inenglish/1553244778_819882.html";>
++   preinstalled nonfree apps that have access to sensitive data without
++   users' knowledge</a>. These hidden apps may either call home with
++   the data, or pass it on to user-installed apps that have access to
++   the network but no direct access to the data. This results in massive
++   surveillance on which the user has absolutely no control.</p>
+
 Added: 2019-04-05
 Id: 201903290
 RT: 1374469