CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 11/11/26 20:33:11
Modified files:
philosophy : free-digital-society.html
Log message:
Minor correction.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
Patches:
Index: free-digital-society.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- free-digital-society.html 22 Nov 2011 02:16:02 -0000 1.7
+++ free-digital-society.html 26 Nov 2011 20:33:04 -0000 1.8
@@ -52,13 +52,14 @@
<p>Most portable phones will transmit their location, computed using
GPS, on remote command. The phone company is accumulating a giant list
-of places that the user has been. A German MP in the Green Party asked
-the phone company to give him the data it had about where he was. He
-had to sue, he had to go to court to get this information. And when he
-got it, he received forty-four thousand location points for a period
-of six months! That's more than two hundred per day! What that means
-is someone could form a very good picture of his activities just by
-looking at that data.</p>
+of places that the user has been. A German MP in the Green Party
+[correction: Malte Spitz is on the staff of the Green Party, not an
+elected official] asked the phone company to give him the data it had
+about where he was. He had to sue, he had to go to court to get this
+information. And when he got it, he received forty-four thousand
+location points for a period of six months! That's more than two
+hundred per day! What that means is someone could form a very good
+picture of his activities just by looking at that data.</p>
<p>We can stop our own computers from doing surveillance on us if
we have control of the software that they run. But the software
@@ -1080,7 +1081,7 @@
<p>Updated:
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-$Date: 2011/11/22 02:16:02 $
+$Date: 2011/11/26 20:33:04 $
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</p>
</div>
