French spyware company pedalled software to parents to ‘find out if your son is gay’

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: August 25, 2017 at 2:16:03 PM EDT
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> 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’
>
>
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> 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
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