I’ve seen a number of initial reactions to the new “Mini Store” window in yesterday’s iTunes updates—most being quite alarmist and accusatory.
This post at BoingBoing raised the issue quickly, but through updates has become quite informative both on what is actually happening, what info might be passed and when, etc. And Forwarding Address OS X tells us that you can just hit cmd-shift-m to hide the window.
As for the underlying concern and privacy issues, I understand the gut reactions of most—and agree with the take that Apple should have been more upfront about the change, but in a world where many choose to pass information on habits around freely and within an apps that’s been associated with other information passing such as CDDB forever the hard fact is that this case didn’t turn out to be a real worry.
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