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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."
Everything Microsoft and Sony do is evil
Everything Google and Apple do is great
Thats how things are on Slashdot, and anyone who suggests differently usualy gets modded as a troll.
If it's dead, you killed it.
"A convenient feature, perhaps, but it raises concerns over privacy."
No it doesn't.
And if you feel it does, don't use it.
Apple uses the same strategy the Republicans use to counter this kind of finding: ignore it and don't even give credence to or acknowledge it, whatsoever. If you don't like it that's your problem.
It works on all us dummies. Somehow.
An old example, but it bears repeating...
By your logic, someone can run a store, and hide a sign behind the counter saying "I get to punch anyone who enters." You walk in, get conked, and it would be completely okay, since the burden would have been on you to research the policy of the store before walking in.