iTunes is Malware?

Moby writes "On the heels of the big Apple love-in that is Macworld comes some interesting but alarming news. Recently a few blogs have started to indicate that iTunes is tracking your music preferences and using that data to recommend other songs from iTMS. The article provides a good overview, with some recommendations of its own. Basically, iTunes is tracking your music and sending the data back to Apple servers. This info is then used to advertise songs that may be to your tastes. A convenient feature, perhaps, but it raises concerns over privacy."

Comments

What kind of music...

[mattkime]

What kind of music do terrorists listen to??

i'm beggining to really hate this program

[Itanshi]

i can't friggen turn it on!! i reinstalled it, updated it rebooted it won't turn on! i checked my firewall, that an't it. i checked processes and it says it is on. grrr

i'm on winamp now. malware or not, i call it idiot ware for the time being.

Re:Big Brother and the iTunes Company

[IAmTheDave]

Sorry, I misread the article. It's about the music you're currently listening to. Mod me down :(

I got how from a hooker.

[crovira]

Get a couple of cell phones, one with a Brooklyn address, one with a Manhattan address, a credit card with a different Manhattan address, a bank with a Staten Island address, and she squats in New Jersey.

She's either a hooker or a cock-sucker for Al Qaeda.

The problem is not that every time you stick your head above the ground somebody's watching, that's now a given unless you're a Ted Kasinki living in a shack somewhere, but, what oversight recourse you have on the recorded info?

As for doing shit you're ashamed of... Don't. Either don't do it or don't be ashamed of doing it.