RealPlayer Uploads Your ID Too

Wired revealed this morning a "New Privacy Glitch" which may actually be years old. Real Networks' RealJukebox isn't its only software to send a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID): RealPlayer does too. The free RealPlayer has 69 million users of all its versions; Real isn't saying which versions send the GUID. It's sad when the "good news" is that RealPlayer doesn't scan your hard drive. Oh - and by the way - Windows Media Player sends one too but it's OK because registration is not required. Are we living in cuckooland? Update: 11/08 08:44 by J : On the just-launched real.com site, their Software Privacy Statement says: "the Globally Unique Identifier - GUID has been disabled for electronic registration so it cannot be used to identify you." This is for RealPlayer 7: still, apparently, no word on earlier versions.