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Apple’s latest feature to iTunes, which suggests songs to you based on what you are playing and what’s in your music library, is being criticized for collecting personal information about a user’s music listening habits.

The new version [of iTunes] includes a MiniStore feature that recommends tracks to buy similar to those a user is listening to.

MiniStore looks for similar tracks when a user clicks on a tune in a playlist. It even makes recommendations about songs that were not bought via the hugely popular online music store.

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Privacy advocates complained that Apple had not done enough to warn people about the information that was being collected, nor what was being done with the collected data.

Apple has re-assured users that the data is not kept after the recommendations are made.

[via The BBC]

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