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French spyware company pedalled software to parents to ‘find out if your son is gay’
From: "DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:42:24 -0400
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From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com> Date: August 25, 2017 at 2:16:03 PM EDT To: E-mail Pamphleteer Dave Farber's Interesting People list <ip () listbox com> Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com> Subject: French spyware company pedalled software to parents to ‘find out if your son is gay’ A software firm has been criticised for attempting to sell spyware to parents, claiming that it could determine the sexual orientation of their sons. The French firm, Fireworld, uploaded an article to their website explaining that the new “invisible PC spy software” could help confirm or refute parents’ suspicions that their son might be gay. The article made no mention of female homosexuality and has since been removed from Fireworld’s website. A French LGBTQ activist group, L'Amicale des jeunes du Refuge, posted about the software in a series of tweets that have been retweeted more than 900 times. The thread also caught the attention of French Secretary of State for Equality, Marlène Schiappa, who responded by tweeting that Fireworld’s proposed software exhibited "homophobia and sexism have their roots in the same gender stereotypes. We will fight them together." In the original article, the French firm wrote: "Family is fundamental. That's why the sexual orientation of your children, directly responsible for the continuation of your family, is very important to you," the BBCreported. It continued to issue a series of “clues” that might lead a parent to suspect that their son is gay. These included “taking good care of himself”, having piercings, being shy, liking female singers and showing an interest in theatre rather than football... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fireworld-spyware-company-parents-son-gay-find-out-software-facebook-accounts-france-a7911786.html -- Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com living as The Truth is True http://geoff.livejournal.com This message was sent to the list address and trashed, but can be found online.
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