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TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits

Posted by Zonk on from the that-little-antenna-guy-is-watching-you dept.

Gyppo writes "The San Francisco Chronicle reports that TiVo is collecting and selling data on what parts of broadcasts people are rewinding for review and what commercials they are skipping. The data collection is part of a service the company provides to advertisers and television networks, collecting anonymous data on their users' commercial-watching habits. The data they provide is a random subset of their overall userbase, detailing which commercials are skipped and which are actually watched. The article mentions the possibility for privacy abuse, but with this application of technology Tivo is not providing access to what any one individual user watches via the service."

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  1. And why am I not surprised? by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd love to know who they're selling it to, though. Choicepoint comes to mind... and that's a very scary thing, letting prospective employers know what I watch.

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    Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
    1. Re:And why am I not surprised? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Wow, an actually "Funny" comment as opposed to another recycled "In Soviet Russia" joke. See that mods? This is how you correctly use your mod points.


      - The same AC who pointed out above that the fucking "In Soviet Russia" jokes have been posted over and over again and are therefore "Redundant" and not "Funny".

  2. Re:in CCCP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    There is zero reason not to mark these stupid-ass "In Soviet Russia" jokes as "Redundant" since they have been posted over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. So why are these "Funny" again?