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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 20/10/11 13:28:43
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proprietary.pt-br.html
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Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
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http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.pt-br.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.10&r2=1.11
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.pt-br.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.85&r2=1.86
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+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
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-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/proprietary.pt-br.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/proprietary.pt-br.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/proprietary.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/proprietary.pt-br-diff.html"
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<h2>Software proprietário frequentemente é malware</h2>
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+<title>Proprietary Tethers
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css"
media="screen,print" />
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-tethers.translist" -->
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+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
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+
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+ <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24"
+ alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> /
+ <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Malware</a> /
+ By type /
+</p>
+</div>
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+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
+<h2>Proprietary Tethers</h2>
+
+<div class="infobox">
+<hr class="full-width" />
+<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
+mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
+which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a
+href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the
+basic injustice</a>. The developers and manufacturers often exercise
+that power to the detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
+
+<p>This typically takes the form of malicious functionalities.</p>
+<hr class="full-width" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<div class="italic">
+<p>Tethering a product or program means designing it to work only by
+communicating with a specific server. That is always an injustice
+since it means you can't use the program without that server. It is
+also a secondary injustice if you can't communicate with the server in
+another way.</p>
+
+<p>In some cases, tethering is used to do specific nasty things to the
+users. This page reports instances where tethering was used to harm
+the users directly.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="important">
+<p>If you know of an example that ought to be in this page but isn't
+here, please write
+to <a
href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>
+to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two
+to serve as specific substantiation.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-tethers"></div>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li <span class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202007280">
+ <p>The Focals eyeglass display, with snooping
+ microphone, has been eliminated. Google eliminated
+ it by buying the manufacturer and shutting it down. It also <a
+
href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/canadian-smart-glasses-going-offline-weeks-after-company-bought-by-google-1.5042010">shut
+ down the server these devices depend on</a>, which caused the ones
+ already sold to cease to function.</p>
+
+ <p>It may be a good thing to wipe out this product—for
+ “smart,” read “snoop”—but Google
+ didn't do that for the sake of privacy. Rather, it was eliminating
+ competition for its own snooping product.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202007270">
+ <p>The Mellow sous-vide cooker is
+ tethered to a server. The company suddenly <a
+
href="https://www.slashgear.com/mellow-sous-vide-owners-get-unwelcome-subscription-surprise-27630842/">
+ turned this tethering into a subscription</a>, forbidding users from
+ taking advantage of the “advanced features” of the cooker
+ unless they pay a monthly fee.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li</em></ins></span> id="M202005070">
+ <p>Wink sells a “smart” home hub that is tethered
+ to a server. In May 2020, it ordered the purchasers to start <a
+
href="https://www.techhive.com/article/3542631/wink-users-revolt-following-its-sudden-shift-to-a-subscription-model.html">
+ paying a monthly fee for the use of that server</a>. Because of the
+ tethering, the hub is useless without that.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201909061">
+ <p>Best Buy made controllable appliances and <a
+
href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/6/20853671/best-buy-connect-insignia-smart-plug-wifi-freezer-mobile-app-shutdown-november-6">
+ shut down the service to control them through</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>While it is laudable that Best Buy recognized it was mistreating
+ the customers by doing so, this doesn't alter the facts that
+ tethering the device to a particular server is a path to screwing the
+ users, and that it is a consequence of having nonfree software in the
+ device.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201904260">
+ <p>The Jibo robot toys were tethered to the manufacturer's server,
+ and <a
href="https://www.apnews.com/99c9ec8ebad242ca88178e22c7642648">
+ the company made them all cease to work</a> by shutting down that
+ server.</p>
+
+ <p>The shutdown might ironically be good for their users, since the
+ product was designed to manipulate people by presenting a phony
+ semblance of emotions, and was most certainly spying on them.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201904040">
+ <p>Ebooks “bought” from Microsoft's store check that
+ their DRM is valid by connecting to the store every time their
+ “owner” wants to read them. Microsoft is going to close
+ this store, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367">
+ bricking all DRM'ed ebooks it has ever “sold”</a>. (The
+ article additionally highlights the pitfalls of DRM.)</p>
+
+ <p>This is another proof that a DRM-encumbered product doesn't belong
+ to the person who bought it. Microsoft said it will refund customers,
+ but this is no excuse for selling them restricted books.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201903250">
+ <p>The British supermarket Tesco sold tablets which were tethered
+ to Tesco's server for reinstalling default settings. Tesco <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/mar/25/tesco-hudl-tablet-support-kill-fix">
+ turned off the server for old models</a>, so now if you try to
+ reinstall the default settings, it bricks them instead.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201809260">
+ <p>Honeywell's “smart” thermostats communicate
+ only through the company's server. They have
+ all the nasty characteristics of such devices: <a
+
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/honeywell-iot-thermostats-server-outage-2018-9">
+ surveillance, and danger of sabotage</a> (of a specific user, or of
+ all users at once), as well as the risk of an outage (which is what
+ just happened).</p>
+
+ <p>In addition, setting the desired temperature requires running
+ nonfree software. With an old-fashioned thermostat, you can do it
+ using controls right on the thermostat.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201807050">
+ <p>The Jawbone fitness tracker was tethered to a proprietary phone
+ app. In 2017, the company shut down and made the app stop working. <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/defunct-jawbone-fitness-trackers-kept-selling-after-app-closure-says-which">All
+ the existing trackers stopped working forever</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article focuses on a further nasty fillip, that sales of the
+ broken devices continued. But we think that is a secondary issue;
+ it made the nasty consequences extend to some additional people.
+ The fundamental wrong was to design the devices to depend on something
+ else that didn't respect users' freedom.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201806250">
+ <p>The game Metal Gear Rising for
+ MacOS was tethered to a server. The company <a
+
href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/400087-metal-gear-rising-mac-unplayable-drm">
+ shut down the server, and all copies stopped working</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201711080">
+ <p>Logitech will sabotage
+ all Harmony Link household control devices by <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/logitech-to-shut-down-service-and-support-for-harmony-link-devices-in-2018/">
+ turning off the server through which the products' supposed owners
+ communicate with them</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The owners suspect this is to pressure them to buy a newer model.
If
+ they are wise, they will learn, rather, to distrust any product that
+ requires users to talk with them through some specialized
service.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201711010">
+ <p>Sony has brought back its robotic pet Aibo, this time <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj778v/sony-wants-to-sell-you-a-subscription-to-a-robot-dog-aibo-90s-pet">
+ with a universal back door, and tethered to a server that requires
+ a subscription</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201710040.1">
+ <p>The Canary home surveillance
+ camera has been sabotaged by its manufacturer, <a
+
href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/4/16426394/canary-smart-home-camera-free-service-update-change">
+ turning off many features unless the user starts paying for a
+ subscription</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>With manufacturers like these, who needs security
breakers?</p>
+
+ <p>The purchasers should learn the larger lesson and reject connected
+ appliances with embedded proprietary software. Every such product is
+ a temptation to commit sabotage.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201708310">
+ <p>The recent versions of Microsoft Office require the user to <a
+
href="https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-office-for-home-and-school-faq?legRedir=true&CorrelationId=c9c5b549-11ad-4f71-bf81-b7e069fdb372">
+ connect to Microsoft servers at least every thirty-one
+ days</a>. Otherwise, the software will refuse to edit any documents
+ or create new ones. It will be restricted to viewing and
printing.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201705180">
+ <p>Bird and rabbit pets were implemented for Second
+ Life by a company that tethered their food to a server. <a
+
href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/19/second-life-ozimals-pet-rabbits-dying">
+ It shut down the server and the pets more or less died</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201704120">
+ <p>Anova sabotaged users' cooking devices
+ with a downgrade that tethered them to a remote server. <a
+
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170415145520/https://consumerist.com/2017/04/12/anova-ticks-off-customers-by-requiring-mandatory-accounts-to-cook-food/">Unless
+ users create an account on Anova's servers, their cookers won't
+ function</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201611070">
+ <p>nVidia's proprietary GeForce Experience <a
+
href="http://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/2672-geforce-experience-data-transfer-analysis">makes
+ users identify themselves and then sends personal data about them to
+ nVidia servers</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201609280">
+ <p>The iMessage app on iThings <a
+
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/apple-logs-your-imessage-contacts-and-may-share-them-with-police/">tells
+ a server every phone number that the user types into it</a>; the
+ server records these numbers for at least 30 days.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201607280">
+ <p>A half-blind security critique of a tracking app: it found that
<a
+
href="http://www.consumerreports.org/mobile-security-software/glow-pregnancy-app-exposed-women-to-privacy-threats/">
+ blatant flaws allowed anyone to snoop on a user's personal data</a>.
+ The critique fails entirely to express concern that the app sends the
+ personal data to a server, where the <em>developer</em> gets
it all.
+ This “service” is for suckers!</p>
+
+ <p>The server surely has a “privacy policy,” and surely
+ it is worthless since nearly all of them are.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201604050">
+ <p>Revolv is a device that managed “smart home”
+ operations: switching lights, operate motion sensors, regulating
+ temperature, etc. Its proprietary software depends on a remote server
+ to do these tasks. On May 15th, 2016, Google/Alphabet <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be">intentionally
+ broke it by shutting down the server</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>If it were free software, users would have the ability to make it
+ work again, differently, and then have a freedom-respecting home
+ instead of a “smart” home. Don't let proprietary software
+ control your devices and turn them into $300 out-of-warranty
+ bricks. Insist on self-contained computers that run free
software!</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201305100">
+ <p>Adobe applications <a
+ href="https://www.wired.com/2013/05/adobe-creative-cloud-petition/">
+ require periodic connection to a server</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/proprietary-menu.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a
href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
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+ <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
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+</div>
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+<h2>Proprietary Software Is Often Malware</h2>
+
+<div id="skiplinks">
+<p class="button"><a href="#TOC">Table of
contents</a></p>
+<p class="button"><a href="#latest">Latest
additions</a></p>
+</div>
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+
+<div id="about-section">
+<p>Proprietary software, also called nonfree software,
+means software that doesn't
+<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">respect users' freedom and
+community</a>. A proprietary program puts its developer or owner
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+in a position of power over its users.</a>
+This power is in itself an injustice.</p>
+
+<p>The point of this page is that the initial injustice of proprietary
+software often leads to further injustices: malicious
+functionalities.</p>
+
+<p>Power corrupts; the proprietary program's developer is tempted to
+design the program to mistreat its users. (Software whose functioning
+mistreats the user is called <em>malware</em>.) Of course, the
+developer usually does not do this out of malice, but rather to profit
+more at the users' expense. That does not make it any less nasty or
+more legitimate.</p>
+
+<p>Yielding to that temptation has become ever more frequent; nowadays
+it is standard practice. Modern proprietary software is typically
+a way to be had.</p>
+<hr class="thin" />
+</div>
+
+<p>As of <span class="removed"><del><strong>July,</strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>September,</em></ins></span> 2020, the pages in
this directory list around 450
+instances of malicious functionalities (with more than <span
class="removed"><del><strong>520</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>540</em></ins></span> references to
+back them up), but there are surely thousands more we don't know
about.</p>
+
+<table id="TOC">
+ <tr>
+ <th>Injustices or techniques</th>
+ <th>Products or companies</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <ul class="columns">
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-addictions.html">Addictions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html">Back
doors</a> (<a href="#f1">1</a>)</li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-censorship.html">Censorship</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-coverups.html">Coverups</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-deception.html">Deception</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">DRM</a> (<a
href="#f2">2</a>)</li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-fraud.html">Fraud</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-incompatibility.html">Incompatibility</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html">Insecurity</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-interference.html">Interference</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">Jails</a> (<a
href="#f3">3</a>)</li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-manipulation.html">Manipulation</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-obsolescence.html">Obsolescence</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html">Sabotage</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-subscriptions.html">Subscriptions</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html">Surveillance</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html">Tethers</a> (<a
href="#f4">4</a>)</li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.html">Tyrants</a> (<a
href="#f5">5</a>)</li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/potential-malware.html">In the
pipe</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-appliances.html">Appliances</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-cars.html">Cars</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-games.html">Games</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html">Mobiles</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-webpages.html">Webpages</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-adobe.html">Adobe</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-amazon.html">Amazon</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html">Apple</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-google.html">Google</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">Microsoft</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="2">
+ <ol>
+ <li id="f1"><em>Back door:</em> any feature of a
program
+ that enables someone who is not supposed to be in control of the
+ computer where it is installed to send it commands.</li>
+
+ <li id="f2"><em>Digital restrictions management, or
+ “DRM”:</em> functionalities designed to restrict
+ what users can do with the data in their computers.</li>
+
+ <li id="f3"><em>Jail:</em> system that imposes
censorship on
+ application programs.</li>
+
+ <li id="f4"><em>Tether:</em> functionality that
requires
+ permanent (or very frequent) connection to a server.</li>
+
+ <li id="f5"><em>Tyrant:</em> system that rejects
any operating
+ system not “authorized” by the manufacturer.</li>
+ </ol>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Users of proprietary software are defenseless against these forms
+of mistreatment. The way to avoid them is by insisting on
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
+(freedom-respecting) software</a>. Since free software is controlled
+by its users, they have a pretty good defense against malicious
+software functionality.</p>
+
+<h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li <span class="removed"><del><strong>id="M202007010">
+ <p>BMW will remotely</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202003110">
+ <p>Roblox (among many other games)
+ created anti-features which sucker children into</em></ins></span> <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/">
+ enable and disable functionality in cars</a> through a universal
+ back door.</p></strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/mar/11/my-kids-spent-600-on-their-ipads-without-my-knowledge">
+ utilizing third-party payment services without
authorization.</a></p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+ <li <span class="removed"><del><strong>id="M202006300">
+ <p>“Bossware” is malware that bosses <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/inside-invasive-secretive-bossware-tracking-workers">
+ coerce workers into installing in their own computers</a>, so the
+ bosses can spy on them.</p>
+
+ <p>This shows why requiring the user's
“consent”</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202007270">
+ <p>The Mellow sous-vide cooker</em></ins></span> is <span
class="removed"><del><strong>not
+ an adequate basis for protecting digital privacy. The boss can coerce
+ most workers into consenting to almost anything, even probable
exposure</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em>tethered</em></ins></span> to <span
class="removed"><del><strong>contagious disease that can be fatal. Software
like this should
+ be illegal and bosses that demand it should be prosecuted for it.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201504210">
+ <p>Runescape is</strong></del></span> a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>popular online game with
some</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>server. The company
suddenly</em></ins></span> <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/33cd8g/question_why_is_runescape_so_addicting/">
+ addictive features</a> derived</strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.slashgear.com/mellow-sous-vide-owners-get-unwelcome-subscription-surprise-27630842/">
+ turned this tethering into a subscription</a>, forbidding
users</em></ins></span> from <span class="removed"><del><strong><a
+ href="/proprietary/proprietary-addictions.html#addictiveness">
+ behavioral manipulation techniques</a>. Certain
+ repetitive aspects</strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em>taking advantage</em></ins></span> of the
<span class="removed"><del><strong>game, like <a
+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_(video_games)">
+ grinding</a>, can be minimised by becoming a paying member, and can
+ thus encourage children and impressionable people to spend money
on</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>“advanced
features” of</em></ins></span> the <span
class="removed"><del><strong>game.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>cooker
+ unless they pay a monthly fee.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+ <li <span class="removed"><del><strong>id="M202006260">
+ <p>Most apps</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202009270">
+ <p>Many employers</em></ins></span> are <span
class="removed"><del><strong>malware, but
+ Trump's campaign app, like Modi's campaign app,</strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>using nonfree
+ software, including videoconference software, to <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/27/shirking-from-home-staff-feel-the-heat-as-bosses-ramp-up-remote-surveillance">
+ surveil and monitor staff working at home</a>. If the program reports
+ whether you are “active,” that</em></ins></span> is <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>in effect a malicious
+ surveillance feature.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202009183">
+ <p>Facebook</em></ins></span> <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-data-hungry-invasive-app-is-a-voter-surveillance-tool-of-extraordinary-scope/">
+ especially nasty malware, helping companies snoop</strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8747541/Facebook-accused-watching-Instagram-users-mobile-cameras.html">snoops</em></ins></span>
+ on <span class="inserted"><ins><em>Instagram</a></em></ins></span>
users <span class="removed"><del><strong>as well
+ as snooping</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>by
surreptitously turning</em></ins></span> on <span
class="removed"><del><strong>them itself</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The article says that Biden's app has a less manipulative overall
+ approach, but that does not tell us whether it has functionalities we
+ consider malicious, such as sending data</strong></del></span> the <span
class="removed"><del><strong>user has not explicitly
+ asked to send.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>device's
+ camera.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+ <li <span class="removed"><del><strong>id="M202006250">
+ <p>TV manufacturers are able to</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202008182">
+ <p>Oculus headsets</em></ins></span> <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-snoopy-smart-tvs-spying-on-you/">snoop
+ every second of what the user is watching</a>.</strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21372435/oculus-facebook-login-change-separate-account-support-end-quest-october">require
+ users to identify themselves to Facebook</a>.</em></ins></span> This
<span class="removed"><del><strong>is illegal due</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>will give Facebook
+ free rein</em></ins></span> to
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong>the Video Privacy Protection Act of
1988, but they're circumventing
+ it through EULAs.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>pervasively snoop on Oculus
users.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+</ul>
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