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Personal video recorder privacy policy concerns.(TiVo)(Brief Article)

Report in US has raised privacy issues concerning personal video recorder (PVR) operator TiVo. Privacy Foundation and University of Denver Privacy Centre conducted four-month investigation to examine clarity of TiVo's privacy policy given to subscribers concerning individual user tracking and user information that TiVo set-top boxes send to TiVo servers. Privacy Foundation (USA; +1/303 871 4971; www.privacyfoundation.org) found that whilst TiVo claims not to collect 'personal viewing information' from its 154,000 US subscribers, 'anonymous viewing information' is that same inform

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