Apple’s latest version of iTunes spies on your music playing habits
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/01/ministore/index.php
Every time you click on a song in the new iTunes (6.0.2), if you have the new MiniStore open (which is is by default in the new version) you send your title and artist info to iTunes. Adding spyware to a product, does that usually it bump up at least half a version point? But Apple went from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 without even bothering to mention this privacy hole in the release notes, and without mentioning anything in their privacy policy about what they do with this data. And they didn't give you the option to opt-in -- it's opt-out for Apple users. Apple, don't be rotten. You owe it to your supporters to fix this behavior. Update: Someone pointed out that they already could collect data on any CD you put in your drive when you lookup the track names -- and this is default behavior, and no one objected to this. Fair point.
posted at 4:18 am
on Jan. 12, 2006
