[24455] in bugtraq
Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Christopher Dodson)
Thu Feb 28 23:06:30 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:42:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott Christopher Dodson <gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU>
To: Just Marc <marc@corky.net>
Cc: Konrad Rieck <kr@roqe.org>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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You may disable cookies which essentially stops them from tracking, which
I don't think they're doing anyway.
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scott
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Just Marc wrote:
> | In my opinion the above information are not sufficient to generate profiles
> | about individuals, although they allow the generation of general statistics.
> | But this is rather normal for a database service. ;)
>
> It is not normal in this case, because the database is certainly *not*
> needed, The user knows what DVD is in his drive, the chapters are mapped,
> menued and named. There is absolutely no need for accessing an external
> db. Therefore it smells like they are doing it for their own statistics
> which I don't think is just, especially because the user cannot turn this
> behaviour off, It should be the choice of the user, and it should be
> turned off per default.
>
> bye,
> Marc.
>
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