www/proprietary malware-amazon.html proprietary...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 20/02/01 09:19:02

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

Log message:
        Surveillance by the Ring app (RT #1469515).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-amazon.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.33&r2=1.34
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.308&r2=1.309
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.199&r2=1.200
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.183&r2=1.184

Patches:
Index: malware-amazon.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-amazon.html,v
retrieving revision 1.33
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -b -r1.33 -r1.34
--- malware-amazon.html 18 Dec 2019 22:43:15 -0000      1.33
+++ malware-amazon.html 1 Feb 2020 14:19:02 -0000       1.34
@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@
 <h4 id="surveillance">Surveillance</h4>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202001290">
+    <p>The Amazon Ring app does <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/29/ring-smart-doorbell-company-surveillance-eff-report";>
+    surveillance for other companies as well as for Amazon</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201212030.1">
     <p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation has examined and found <a
     href="https://www.eff.org/pages/reader-privacy-chart-2012";>various
@@ -322,7 +328,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/12/18 22:43:15 $
+$Date: 2020/02/01 14:19:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.308
retrieving revision 1.309
diff -u -b -r1.308 -r1.309
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       18 Nov 2019 10:27:57 -0000      1.308
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       1 Feb 2020 14:19:02 -0000       1.309
@@ -816,6 +816,12 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202001290">
+    <p>The Amazon Ring app does <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/29/ring-smart-doorbell-company-surveillance-eff-report";>
+    surveillance for other companies as well as for Amazon</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M201910130">
     <p>The Chinese Communist Party's &ldquo;Study
     the Great Nation&rdquo; app requires users to grant it <a
@@ -2536,7 +2542,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/11/18 10:27:57 $
+$Date: 2020/02/01 14:19:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.199
retrieving revision 1.200
diff -u -b -r1.199 -r1.200
--- proprietary.html    20 Jan 2020 18:33:28 -0000      1.199
+++ proprietary.html    1 Feb 2020 14:19:02 -0000       1.200
@@ -173,6 +173,12 @@
 <h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202001290">
+    <p>The Amazon Ring app does <a
+    
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/29/ring-smart-doorbell-company-surveillance-eff-report";>
+    surveillance for other companies as well as for Amazon</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M202001090">
     <p>Android phones subsidized by the US government come with <a
     
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/us-government-funded-android-phones-come-preinstalled-with-unremovable-malware/";>
@@ -262,25 +268,6 @@
     originating from single IP addresses, the government can identify
     dissenters in China and Hong Kong, thus endangering their lives.</p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M201904080">
-    <p>Apple plans to require that <a
-    
href="https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/08/mac-apps-notarization-macos-10-14-5/";>
-    all application software for MacOS be approved by Apple first</a>.</p>
-
-    <p>Offering a checking service as an option could be
-    useful and would not be wrong.  Requiring users to get
-    Apple's approval is tyranny. Apple says the check will
-    only look for malware (not counting the malware that is <a
-    href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html#TOC">part of
-    the operating system</a>), but Apple could change that policy step
-    by step.  Or perhaps Apple will define malware to include any app
-    that China does not like.</p>
-
-    <p>For free software, this means users will need to get Apple's
-    approval after compilation.  This amounts to a system of surveilling
-    the use of free programs.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -342,7 +329,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2020/01/20 18:33:28 $
+$Date: 2020/02/01 14:19:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.183
retrieving revision 1.184
diff -u -b -r1.183 -r1.184
--- workshop/mal.rec    20 Jan 2020 18:33:28 -0000      1.183
+++ workshop/mal.rec    1 Feb 2020 14:19:02 -0000       1.184
@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@
 ####    Please don't remove the blank line after this marker!    ####
 # ADD NEW BLURB HERE
 
+Added: 2020-02-01
+Id: 202001290
+RT:
+PubDate: 2020-01-29
+Target: proprietary-surveillance.html SpywareInMobileApps
+Target: malware-amazon.html surveillance
+Keywords: Ring
+Blurb: <p>The Amazon Ring app does <a
++   
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/29/ring-smart-doorbell-company-surveillance-eff-report";>
++   surveillance for other companies as well as for Amazon</a>.</p>
+
 Added: 2020-01-20
 Id: 202001090
 RT: www-discuss 2020-01-12 (adware that is impossible to delete...)