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

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/02/06 07:23:07

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

Log message:
        Surveillance in many phone cr..apps (www-discuss 2021-02-05)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.146&r2=1.147
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.294&r2=1.295
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.373&r2=1.374
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.297&r2=1.298

Patches:
Index: malware-mobiles.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html,v
retrieving revision 1.146
retrieving revision 1.147
diff -u -b -r1.146 -r1.147
--- malware-mobiles.html        4 Feb 2021 11:07:00 -0000       1.146
+++ malware-mobiles.html        6 Feb 2021 12:23:04 -0000       1.147
@@ -595,6 +595,21 @@
     full-time listening devices</a>.</p>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202102010">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-02</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>Many cr...apps, developed by various
+    companies for various organizations, do <a
+    href="https://www.expressvpn.com/digital-security-lab/investigation-xoth";>
+    location tracking unknown to those companies and those
+    organizations</a>.  It's actually some widely used libraries that do
+    the tracking.</p>
+
+    <p>What's unusual here is that proprietary software developer A tricks
+    proprietary software developers B1 &hellip; B50 into making platforms for
+    A to mistreat the end user.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M202012070">
     <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-12</small>'
     --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
@@ -1535,7 +1550,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/02/04 11:07:00 $
+$Date: 2021/02/06 12:23:04 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.294
retrieving revision 1.295
diff -u -b -r1.294 -r1.295
--- proprietary.html    4 Feb 2021 11:07:00 -0000       1.294
+++ proprietary.html    6 Feb 2021 12:23:05 -0000       1.295
@@ -186,6 +186,21 @@
 <h3 id="latest">Latest additions</h3>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202102010">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-02</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>Many cr...apps, developed by various
+    companies for various organizations, do <a
+    href="https://www.expressvpn.com/digital-security-lab/investigation-xoth";>
+    location tracking unknown to those companies and those
+    organizations</a>.  It's actually some widely used libraries that do
+    the tracking.</p>
+
+    <p>What's unusual here is that proprietary software developer A tricks
+    proprietary software developers B1 &hellip; B50 into making platforms for
+    A to mistreat the end user.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M202010120">
     <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-10</small>'
     --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
@@ -234,18 +249,6 @@
     href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Jami";>GNU Jami</a>, which is
     free software and will not collect your data.</p>
   </li>
-
-  <li id="M201604040">
-    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2016-04</small>'
-    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
-    <p>Many popular mobile games include a random-reward system called
-    <a href="#gacha"><i>gacha</i></a> which is especially effective on
-    children. One variant of gacha was declared illegal in Japan in 2012,
-    but the other variants are still <a
-    
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/04/04/japanese-mobile-gaming-still-cant-shake-off-the-spectre-of-exploitation/";>
-    luring players into compulsively spending</a> inordinate amounts of
-    money on virtual toys.</p>
-  </li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -308,7 +311,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/02/04 11:07:00 $
+$Date: 2021/02/06 12:23:05 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.373
retrieving revision 1.374
diff -u -b -r1.373 -r1.374
--- proprietary-surveillance.html       4 Feb 2021 11:07:00 -0000       1.373
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html       6 Feb 2021 12:23:05 -0000       1.374
@@ -1090,6 +1090,21 @@
 </div>
 
 <ul class="blurbs">
+  <li id="M202102010">
+    <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-02</small>'
+    --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+    <p>Many cr...apps, developed by various
+    companies for various organizations, do <a
+    href="https://www.expressvpn.com/digital-security-lab/investigation-xoth";>
+    location tracking unknown to those companies and those
+    organizations</a>.  It's actually some widely used libraries that do
+    the tracking.</p>
+
+    <p>What's unusual here is that proprietary software developer A tricks
+    proprietary software developers B1 &hellip; B50 into making platforms for
+    A to mistreat the end user.</p>
+  </li>
+
   <li id="M202003260">
     <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-03</small>'
     --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
@@ -3306,7 +3321,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/02/04 11:07:00 $
+$Date: 2021/02/06 12:23:05 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.297
retrieving revision 1.298
diff -u -b -r1.297 -r1.298
--- workshop/mal.rec    6 Feb 2021 10:28:36 -0000       1.297
+++ workshop/mal.rec    6 Feb 2021 12:23:06 -0000       1.298
@@ -24,6 +24,24 @@
 ####    Please don't remove the blank line after this marker!    ####
 # ADD NEW BLURB HERE
 
+Added: 2021-02-06
+Id: 202102010
+RT: www-discuss 2021-02-05 (surveillance in many phone cr..apps)
+PubDate: 2021-02-01
+Target: proprietary-surveillance.html SpywareInMobileApps
+Target: malware-mobiles.html surveillance
+Keywords: location tracker SDK
+Blurb: <p>Many cr...apps, developed by various
++   companies for various organizations, do <a
++   href="https://www.expressvpn.com/digital-security-lab/investigation-xoth";>
++   location tracking unknown to those companies and those
++   organizations</a>.  It's actually some widely used libraries that do
++   the tracking.</p>
++
++   <p>What's unusual here is that proprietary software developer A tricks
++   proprietary software developers B1 &hellip; B50 into making platforms for
++   A to mistreat the end user.</p>
+
 Added: 2021-02-04
 Id: 202010120
 RT: 1683356