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Colin Dunstan · 01-11-2006, 04:08 PM

Brian did you check out the Boing Boing post I was referring to? It appears that Apple did not mention that they would collect this kind of information; in fact, this Marc guy points out,

We all know that Apple uses GraceNote to grab iTunes track info. But this is precisely my point: Apple’s use of GraceNote is transparent. When you rip a new CD, iTunes tells you that it’s querying the GraceNote database. Not only that, Apple had the good sense to be clear about GraceNote in the iTunes EULA. As of this writing (01/11/06 3:30pm EST), no publicly available Apple EULA mentions Omniture. According to Google, the only mention of Omniture on Apple's web site is a couple job openings and a copyright notice for the King Kong trailer. Apple clearly felt bound to include GraceNote in its iTunes EULA. Why not Omniture? Why one standard of transparency for Company A and a different standard for Company B?

There's also an updated post on what's behind Omniture, which appears to be some kind of marketing firm.

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Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Brian did you check out the Boing Boing post I was referring to? It appears that Apple did not mention that they would collect this kind of information; in fact, this Marc guy points out, We all know that Apple uses GraceNote to grab iTunes track info. But this is precisely my point: Apple’s use of GraceNote is transparent. When you rip a new CD, iTunes tells you that it’s querying the GraceNote database. Not only that, Apple had the good sense to be clear about GraceNote in the iTunes EULA. As of this writing (01/11/06 3:30pm EST), no publicly available Apple EULA mentions Omniture. According to Google, the only mention of Omniture on Apple's web site is a couple job openings and a copyright notice for the King Kong trailer. Apple clearly felt bound to include GraceNote in its iTunes EULA. Why not Omniture? Why one standard of transparency for Company A and a different standard for Company B? There's also an updated post on what's behind Omniture, which appears to be some kind of marketing firm.