Articles in the TiVo Category
Privacy, TiVo »
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that TiVo is collecting and selling data on what parts of broadcasts people are rewinding for review and what commercials they are skipping. Dubbed “StopWatch,” this data-collection practice reflects the growing ease with which various media and Internet service providers can collect and exploit vast amounts of information about consumers’ everyday habits.
TiVo maintains that there is little privacy threat to end users, arguing that “We don’t know what any particular person is watching,” and “We only know what a random, anonymous sampling of …
