San Jose Mercury News - RealNetworks stops secret information collection (11/01/1999). The incident involving the popular RealJukebox digital music player highlights how easy it is for companies to collect detailed, personal information over the Internet without consumers' knowledge, privacy advocates said.

Time Daily - November 1, 1999 - RealNetworks Says It's RealSorry.

MacWEEK - RealNetworks is watching you.

While the majority of the articles are just variations on the AP feed or referrals to the New York Times - free registration required articles. It is gratifying to see the wide coverage the RealJukeBox fiasco has received. Maybe companies will finally catch on that people are starting to take their privacy seriously.

Slashdot | Your Rights Online | RealNetworks to Create Patch to Block Personal Data.

InternetNews.com / Streaming Media News Archives - Real Networks' Monitoring Comes Under Fire--November 1, 1999. Real Networks Inc. Monday is finding itself in the hot seat following a report that company's RealJukebox software surreptitiously monitors the listening habits of users and sends that information to the company.

Jesse Berst, Editorial DirectorZDNet AnchorDesk - The Good, Bad and Ugly of Personalization: Why Your Web Identity is Vulnerable. Shocked that RealNetworks keeps track of who you are and what music you listen to? Try this bombshell: Real is just the tip of the iceberg. Literally hundreds of sites track what you do on the Web. Thousands more plan to. So it's worth a look at this issue -- the good, the bad and the ugly.

Bergen Record - Software sparks privacy furor.

Australian Financial Review - Popular software secretly sends music preferences.

New York Times - free registration required RealNetworks to Stop Collecting User Data. The executives also announced that they were beginning an immediate review of RealNetworks' privacy practices. After the internal review, RealNetworks will bring in outside privacy experts to verify that its practices are consistent with its policies, the executives said.

Austin American-Statesman/Austin 360 - RealJukebox raises privacy concerns -- 11/1/99.

ABCNEWS.com - Software Sends Habits to RealNetworks.

Reuters Internet Report (on Excite) - RealNetworks Issues Patch To Block Personal Data.

ZDNet: InterActive Week - RealNetworks Is Watching You.

Excite UK Channels - Technology - A Real Privacy Problem short term link. I am suprised I haven't seen more of a stink from Europe. The activities of RealNetworks must be a violation of their(the EC) privacy policies.

TechWeb - RealNetworks Patches RealJukebox Privacy Hole. RealNetworks Inc. said on Monday it is issuing a ``patch'' for its RealJukebox software to prevent the program from sending personal user data to the company, and apologized for not being clear about the kind of information being collected.

Just want to say thanks to Dave Winer for his link to Privacy Digest on his www.scripting.com and my.userland.com sites.

Junkbusters ® Corporation. - RealNetworks' Privacy Intrusion.

RealNetworks - RealJukebox Update. RealNetworks has released a software update to RealJukebox that prevents the transmission of certain user information to RealNetworks during the Get Music service update and also disables the RealJukebox ID.

MS-NBC - RealNetworks is watching you. The following information is transmitted to RealNetworks: the number of songs stored on a user's hard drive, their file formats, the user's preferred music genre, and the type of portable music player the user has.

Technology News from Wired News - RealNetworks Probe Begins. Web privacy watchdog group Truste said Monday it will launch an investigation into RealNetworks' controversial data collection practices. Privacy advocates say its a start, but that more action is needed.

USA Today - RealNetworks is watching you. The company that produces a popular software program for listening to music on computers apologized to users Monday and promised not to use the software to secretly collect details about the music preferences of its customers. ... In an early response to the controversy, RealNetworks updated its privacy promise on its Web site last weekend, saying its tracking technology was intended ''to understand the interests and needs of our users so that we can offer valuable personalized services.''

Nando Times - Privacy advocates, users angry over RealJukebox.

CNN - Technology - Popular software secretly sends music preferences - November 1, 1999. Online discussion groups were filled Monday with blistering comments about the company, such as a person who called it "something else entirely when you entice that user to install (software) on their system which then surreptitiously monitors their activities." Some experts went so far as to call the company's software a "Trojan horse," malicious computer code that promises to perform one function but secretly commits nefarious digital deeds. Most of the protest seems to have been generated because the company didn't admit up front that it was going to track user activities. Once again a company thought no one would notice what they were up to.

ON24 Audio Investor Alert: Analyst - RealNetworks Loses on Privacy Issue. For the complete streaming audio story users should access http://www.on24.com/index.html?id=7013&type=av&ref=bizwire

CNET.com - News - The Net - House Democrats block digital signatures bill. The House of Representatives, facing complaints from Democrats and consumer groups, failed to pass a measure designed to spur e-commerce by giving electronic contracts the same legal standing as those on paper. ... "We thought we were very close to an understanding," said Representative John Dingell (D-Michigan). "Today we find that consumer protections have been removed or reduced without any consultation with the minority."

Salon Technology | Is the Net in your locker room?. Whether they know it or not, thousands of male college athletes have been caught on videotape, often while showering or urinating and almost always naked, in their locker rooms at universities across the country. What's worse, the secretly made tapes have been mass-produced and are still being sold and distributed on Web sites.

Providence Journal - BOB KERR: What used to be a bad thing is now a good thing. An attempt to define the deference between the hacker and the cracker.

A Jane's Conference - Cyber Terrorism: The Risks and Realities. Awareness to a new state of terrorism is crucial whether you are trying to protect your own computer, your company's systems or the infrastructure of your city or country. It is less the types of hacking incidents and mass distribution of viruses that receive media attention that is important. The real threat is an insidious form of hard-core hacking where the physical and virtual worlds collide. BTW - In case you were not familiar with the organization. Jane's is the largest independent source about military technology and weapons. Their publications about Military airplanes and Naval vessels are standards in the industry

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