'Free software movement' founder Richard Stallman talks 'How much modern technology spies people'


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Benjamí Villoslada Gil

Richard Stallman, who founded the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, is also known as a 'Free Software Evangelist'. In his speech, Stallman speaks of criticism of major technology companies such as Apple and Netflix.

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◆ Company spying users
According to Stallman, most non-free software (proprietary software) is trying to extract user information, an example being Amazon's e-reader . Mr. Stallman says that Amazon's e-reader not only uses 'when and which Amazon service' information, but also titles of books purchased outside Amazon, 'which pages are read' and 'what It is said that the information on 'highlighted' is also collected. It also says that Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and Chrome are also extracting user information.

◆ Android application
About 60% of paid apps and about 90% of free apps show that a researcher has checked how many of them are 'spying' users out of the 1000 most popular Android applications. It seems that he was spying. 'There was no mention of how to detect if the application is spying,' Stallman said, 'non-free software that does not reveal source code almost spies users.' And commented.


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◆ Streaming app and allocation app
Music and video streaming apps like Spotify and Netflix and dispatch apps like Uber are the worst of the spying apps, and each user's “viewing history” held by Spotify and Netflix, Uber's 'mobile history' of the user is 'essentially able to grasp what' who saw and who heard that person 'and being able to grasp such information threatens human rights Says Stallman.

◆ Smart device
Smartwatches not only constantly collect user location information, but some smartwatches offer the right to access data collected from users for a fee. Stallman strongly denounced this, 'What kind of nervous is it to sell it to users, though it is data collected from users themselves?'


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In addition, home security camera is hotbed of spy. According to Stallman, a long time ago it was mainstream to transfer data directly from the camera body to check movies recorded by a home security camera, but recently it has to be downloaded via the manufacturer's server It is said that the form is becoming mainstream. Thus, companies say they can access and spy on these movies.

◆ Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Digital rights management is a technology to prevent unlimited use of data by making it possible to play original data such as music only with specific software or hardware. Stallman uses the example of George Orwell's ' 1984 ' sold on the Kindle not only being suddenly removed from the Kindle store, but also deleted until the user had already purchased '1984'. He said, 'It is possible that companies may not be able to access the content they would have owned at their discretion.'

The reason the '1984' was deleted on the Kindle is that while it was in the public domain in some countries, it was still copyright protected in the United States.

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◆ Software backdoor
iOS has a backdoor that 'forces the installed apps to disable and can not be used', and Android says 'remotely erase any apps and force any apps to be installed' There is a stronger backdoor than iOS. Backdoors have been identified that allow Microsoft to force any code on the PC to run Windows XP and later, and these PCs are essentially 'Microsoft's possession' It can be said.

There is also a page on how Windows is spying on users: 'Microsoft software is malware' by the GNU project, which Stallman founded.

Microsoft Software is Malware-GNU Project-Free Software Foundation



In addition, Kindle tablets and mobile phones are equipped with a microphone and GPS, and it is possible to turn off the software, but it is impossible for the user to turn them off in essence. In addition, mobile phones send signals to

base stations located everywhere to route calls, every few minutes, and use the triangulation analysis of the signals to back calculate the location of the phones. You can also

Stallman argues that the development of these technologies is linked to Stalin's dreaming ' surveillance society ', and thus says that he is 'performing no possession of mobile phones' himself.

◆ About censorship
The iPhone was the first of the common computing devices to be 'a user can not freely install their own application'. Apple is a leader in app censorship because users can only install apps via the App Store and need Apple approval to deliver apps on the App Store. Also now, Apple is cooperating with China's Internet censorship for the sale of the iPhone.

A site that shows how Apple has cooperated with the Chinese government's Internet censorship-GIGAZINE



By talking about how modern software and devices are being monitored, Mr. Stallman is working to explain the importance of the ' free software movement ' and ' copyleft ' that he created.

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