Z:gnu-www-ja-free-digital-society--951d29-Surveillance is sometimes done/en

Surveillance is sometimes done with our own computers. For instance, if you have a computer that's running Microsoft Windows, that system is doing surveillance. There are features in Windows that send data to some server, data about the use of the computer. A surveillance feature was discovered in the iPhone a few months ago, and people started calling it the &ldquo;spy-phone.&rdquo; Flash player has a surveillance feature too, and so does the Amazon &ldquo;Swindle.&rdquo; They call it the Kindle, but I call it &ldquo;the Swindle,&rdquo; l'escroc, because it's meant to swindle users out of their freedom. It makes people identify themselves whenever they buy a book, and that means Amazon has a giant list of all the books each user has read. Such a list must not exist anywhere.