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+<title>Proprietary Deception
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css"
media="screen,print" />
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-deception.translist"
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+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
+ src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
+ title="Section contents"
+ alt=" [Section contents] " />
+</a>
+
+<p class="breadcrumb">
+ <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>
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
+<h2>Proprietary Deception</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">
+<p>Deception is a malicious functionality that makes the program
+dishonest or conceals trickery. Here are examples of such
+malicious functionalities. Cases of deception that involve taking
+people's money are listed in <a
+href="/proprietary/proprietary-fraud.html#main-heading">
+Proprietary Fraud</a>.</p>
+
+<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-deception"></div>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li <span class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202202151">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2022-02</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Honorlock set a network of fake test answer
+ honeypot sites, tempting people to get exam answers, but <a
+
href="https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2022/02/15/a-network-of-fake-test-answer-sites-is-trying-to-incriminate-students">that
+ is a way to entrap students, so as to identify them and punish
+ them</a>, using nonfree JS code to identify them.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li</em></ins></span> id="M202011050">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2020-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>HP tricked users into installing
+ a mischievous update in their printers that <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer">made
+ the devices reject all third-party ink cartridges</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202002020">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2020-02</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Many Android apps fool their users by asking
+ them to decide what permissions to give the program, and then <a
+
href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/10/android-apps-sidestepping-permissions-to-access-sensitive-data/">
+ bypassing these permissions</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The Android system is supposed to prevent data leaks by running
apps
+ in isolated sandboxes, but developers have found ways to access the
+ data by other means, and there is nothing the user can do to stop
+ them from doing so, since both the system and the apps are
nonfree.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201904150">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2019-04</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p id="M201509210">Volkswagen programmed its car engine computers to
<a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.petri.com/volkswagen-used-software-to-cheat-on-emissions"></strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://petri.com/volkswagen-used-software-to-cheat-on-emissions/"></em></ins></span>
+ detect the Environmental Protection Agency's emission tests</a>, and
+ run dirty the rest of the time. In real driving, the cars exceeded
+ emissions standards by a factor of up to 35.</p>
+
+ <p>Using free software would not have stopped Volkswagen from
+ programming it this way, but would have made it harder to conceal,
+ and given the users the possibility of correcting the deception.</p>
+
+ <p>Former executives of Volkswagen are being <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/15/former-head-of-volkswagen-could-face-10-years-in-prison">
+ sued over this fraud</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201903281">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2019-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>OfficeMax cheated customers by <a
+
href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/office-depot-tricked-people-into-buying-pc-support-with-fake-virus-scans/">
+ using proprietary “PC Health Check” software</a> rigged
+ to give false results, deceiving the customer into thinking per
+ computer was infected and buy unneeded support services from the
+ company.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201902041.2">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2019-02</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Twenty nine “beauty camera” apps that used to
+ be on Google Play had one or more malicious functionalities, such as <a
+
href="https://www.teleanalysis.com/these-29-beauty-camera-apps-steal-private-photo/">
+ stealing users' photos instead of “beautifying” them</a>,
+ pushing unwanted and often malicious ads on users, and redirecting
+ them to phishing sites that stole their credentials. Furthermore,
+ the user interface of most of them was designed to make uninstallation
+ difficult.</p>
+
+ <p>Users should of course uninstall these dangerous apps if they
+ haven't yet, but they should also stay away from nonfree apps in
+ general. <em>All</em> nonfree apps carry a potential risk
because
+ there is no easy way of knowing what they really do.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201611060">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2016-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p><a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://jalopnik.com/america-figured-out-a-new-way-audi-cheated-on-emissions-1788630969"></strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://jalopnik.com/america-figured-out-a-new-way-audi-cheated-on-emissions-1788630969"></em></ins></span>
+ Audi's proprietary software used a simple method to cheat on emissions
+ tests</a>: to activate a special low-emission gearshifting mode until
+ the first time the car made a turn.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201609010">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2016-09</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Many proprietary programs secretly <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/05/payperinstall_study/">install</strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.theregister.com/2016/08/05/payperinstall_study/">install</em></ins></span>
+ other proprietary programs that the users don't want</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201607140">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2016-07</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>The proprietor of the Pokémon Go game <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/14/pokemon-go-sponsored-locations-restaurants-business">
+ invites restaurants and other businesses to pay to have the game lure
+ people there</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201511110">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2015-11</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>A top-ranking proprietary Instagram client promising
+ to tell users who's been watching their pictures was in reality <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/11/top-ranking-free-app-stole-instagram-passwords">stealing</strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/11/top-ranking-free-app-stole-instagram-passwords">stealing</em></ins></span>
+ their credentials</a>, advertising itself on their feed, and posting
+ images without their consent.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/proprietary-menu.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
+<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>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
+ <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations
of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
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+
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class="inserted"><ins><em>2015-2022</em></ins></span> Free Software Foundation,
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+
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+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative
+Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
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+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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+<title>Proprietary Manipulation
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css"
media="screen,print" />
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-manipulation.translist"
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<div class="nav">
+<a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks">
+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
+ src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
+ title="Section contents"
+ alt=" [Section contents] " />
+</a>
+
+<p class="breadcrumb">
+ <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>
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
+<h2>Proprietary Manipulation</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">
+<p>Manipulation of users is one of these malicious functionalities.
+Here are examples of programs that are designed to do this by taking
+advantage of human psychology.</p>
+
+<p>We have a special page for <a
+href="/proprietary/proprietary-addictions.html">Addictive
programs</a>,
+which also take advantage of human psychology, but in a much more
+elaborate and dangerous way.</p>
+
+<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-manipulation"></div>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li <span class="inserted"><ins><em>id="M202203010">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2022-03</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>The nonfree app “Along,”
+ developed by a company controlled by Zuckerberg, <a
+
href="https://kappanonline.org/dont-go-along-with-corporate-schemes-to-gather-up-student-data/">
+ leads students to reveal to their teacher personal information</a>
+ about themselves and their families. Conversations are recorded
+ and the collected data sent to the company, which grants itself the
+ right to sell it. See also <a
+
href="/education/educational-malware-app-along.html#content">Educational
Malware App “Along”</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202202151">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2022-02</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Honorlock set a network of fake test answer
+ honeypot sites, tempting people to get exam answers, but <a
+
href="https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2022/02/15/a-network-of-fake-test-answer-sites-is-trying-to-incriminate-students">that
+ is a way to entrap students, so as to identify them and punish
+ them</a>, using nonfree JS code to identify them.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li</em></ins></span> id="M202107050">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2021-07</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p><a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/05/advertisers-targeted-dream-incubation">
+ Advertising companies are experimenting to manipulate people's
+ minds</a>, and impose a new way of advertising by altering their
+ dreams. This “targeted dream incubation” would trigger
+ “refreshing dreams” of the product, according to the
+ companies.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202106220">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2021-06</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Peloton company which produces treadmills recently <a
+
href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/peloton-tread-owners-now-forced-into-monthly-subscription-after-recall/">locked
+ people out of basic features of people's treadmills by a software
+ update</a>. The company now asks people for a membership/subscription
+ for what people already paid for.</p>
+
+ <p>The software used in the treadmill is proprietary and probably
+ includes back doors to force software updates. It teaches the lesson
+ that if a product talks to external networks, you must expect it to
+ take in new malware.</p>
+
+ <p>Please note that the company behind this product said they
+ are working to reverse the changes so people will no longer need
+ subscription to use the locked feature.</p>
+
+ <p>Apparently public anger made the company back down. If we want
that
+ to be our safety, we need to build up the anger against malicious
+ features (and the proprietary software that is their entry path)
+ to the point that even the most powerful companies don't dare.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202102190">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2021-02</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>The Prodigy maths game played in schools
+ at no cost entices students to play it at home, where <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/19/maths-app-targeting-uk-schools-is-criticised-over-premium-model">
+ the company tries to lure them into paying for a premium
+ subscription</a> in exchange for mere cosmetic features that, at
+ school, underline the socioeconomic gap between those who can afford
+ it and those who can't.</p>
+
+ <p>The strategy of <a href="/education/edu-schools.html">using
+ schools as a fishing pool for customers</a> is a common practice
+ traditionally adopted by nonfree software companies.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M202007020">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2020-07</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>BMW is trying to <a
+
href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/2/21311332/bmw-in-car-purchase-heated-seats-software-over-the-air-updates">lock
+ certain features of its cars, and force people to pay to use part of
+ the car they already bought</a>. This is done through forced update
+ of the car software via a radio-operated back door.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201905300">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2019-05</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>The Femm “fertility” app is secretly a <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/30/revealed-womens-fertility-app-is-funded-by-anti-abortion-campaigners">
+ tool for propaganda</a> by natalist Christians. It spreads distrust
+ for contraception.</p>
+
+ <p>It snoops on users, too, as you must expect from nonfree
+ programs.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201904260">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2019-04</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>The Jibo robot toys were tethered to the manufacturer's server,
+ and <a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="https://www.apnews.com/99c9ec8ebad242ca88178e22c7642648"></strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-north-america-technology-business-ap-top-news-99c9ec8ebad242ca88178e22c7642648"></em></ins></span>
+ 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="M201809121">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2018-09</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>Tiny Lab Productions, along with online ad businesses run
+ by Google, Twitter and three other companies are facing a lawsuit <a
+
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/technology/kids-apps-data-privacy-google-twitter.html">for
+ violating people's privacy by collecting their data from mobile games
+ and handing over these data to other
companies/advertisers</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201808131">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2018-08</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p><a
+
href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/13/17684660/google-turn-off-location-history-data">Google
+ will track people even if people turn off location history</a>, using
+ Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches. Google basically
+ uses any app activity to track people.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201308290">
+ <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small
class="date-tag">2013-08</small>'
+ --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" -->
+ <p>“Dark patterns” are <a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-inside-the-interfaces-designed-to-trick-you">user</strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-inside-the-interfaces-designed-to-trick-you">user</em></ins></span>
+ interfaces designed to mislead users, or make option settings hard
+ to find</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This allows a company such as Apple to say, “We allow users
+ to turn this off” while ensuring that few will understand how
+ to actually turn it off.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
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+
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