Apple sezs that it "does not inhale"

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Apple <http://apple.slashdot.org/> : Apple Responds to iTunes Spying
Allegations 
Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/>  on Thursday January 12,
@11:22AM
from the harmless-fruit dept. 
 
daveschroeder <http://das.doit.wisc.edu/>  writes "According to Macworld
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/01/ministore/>  and BoingBoing
<http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/11/itunes_update_spies_.html> : 'An Apple
spokesman (reliable word has it that it was Steve Jobs himself) told
MacWorld that Apple discards the personal information that the iTunes
Ministore transmits to Apple while you use iTunes. [...] Apple tells us that
the information is not actually being collected. The data sent is used to
update the MiniStore and then discarded.' Apple also has a knowledge base
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303066> article, which
apparently was available the day iTunes 6.0.2 was introduced, explaining the
MiniStore behavior and how to disable it: 'iTunes sends data about the song
selected in your library to the iTunes Music Store to provide relevant
recommendations. When the MiniStore is hidden, this data is not sent to the
iTunes Music Store.'" The discussion about this topic was fast and
<http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/11/1619259.shtml?tid=158> furious
yesterday. 

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