Privacy group says “Apple’s iTunes is watching you!”
I read about the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic’s (CIPPIC) concerns with Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and privacy but didn’t make the connection until I read this article in the Globe: if you download music from Apple’s iTunes they are watching you!! (Did that get your attention too? lol)
It is hard to straighten out the facts from the privacy-fiction but, according to CIPPIC’s media release, DRM technologies don’t sufficiently inform users that they are tracking usage and surfing habits — and, more sinisterly, CIPPIC observed “unexplained communications with third parties including marketing
companies.”
UPDATE sept 27/07:
little more for you:
One example described in the report is Intuit’s QuickTax software. According to the CIPPIC, the DRM platform in QuickTax causes it to send Canadian residents’ information to US officials, and there is no disclosure about that up front.