[IP] "Apple tweaks iTunes following privacy concerns"
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From: Dan Updegrove <updegrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 18, 2006 6:13:59 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: "Apple tweaks iTunes following privacy concerns"
Dave,
In response to privacy concerns raised January 11, " [IP] iTunes
update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?" CNET is
reporting that Apple has changed the
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: January 18, 2006, 9:08 AM PST
Last modified: January 18, 2006, 11:09 AM PST
Following a wave of privacy concerns last week, Apple Computer has
begun prominently notifying customers about a new recommendation
feature in its iTunes software, as well as spotlighting a simple way
to turn it off.
The new feature, a "MiniStore" pane in the software, provides music
recommendations to iTunes users based on the songs currently in the
software's active playlist. To do so, it sends information about
those songs back to Apple, even if the tracks weren't originally
purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
The information exchange also includes a string of data linked to an
iTunes customer's unique ID number, which is also used for other
Apple accounts, such as the .Mac service and the Apple Developer
Connection, computer experts found last week. An Apple representative
said last week that the company did not store or archive any of the
information from this MiniStore recommendation process.
Previously, that information exchange was not disclosed in any user
agreement or in the software itself. However, an update posted late
Tuesday now prominently adds a notification inside the iTunes
software itself when the MiniStore is turned on for the first time.
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Dan
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