New iTunes snoops on users

THE LATEST version of Apple's iTunes software has been blasted by privacy advocates over its latest feature which will scan your music collection and recommends new songs for you to buy.

The Apple Ministore feature on eyeTunes has Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, worried about what the Cappuccino based outfit will do with all the data it collects.

Jason Schultz, staff attorney EFF, said Apple must have something to hide because it is refusing to say specifically what it does with the data.

A spokesApple said that Apple did not save or store any of the information used to create recommendations for the MiniStore. But you will just have to take his word on that.

More at the LA Times, here. µ