Dusting My Brain: Now Playing: iTunes MiniStore Spying

January 13, 2006

Now Playing: iTunes MiniStore Spying

The new music software includes a "MiniStore" window, which provides recommended links to Apple's music download service when a listener actively clicks on a song in their personal playlist, including songs that haven't been purchased from the iTunes store. To provide those recommendations, the software sends information about the selected song, such as artist, title and genre, back to Apple. But the software also transmits a string of data that is linked to a computer user's unique iTunes account ID, computer experts have found.

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How to show or hide the MiniStore in iTunes

Updated January 18: Apple tweaks iTunes following privacy concerns

Cindy