Comments on: Orb pulls a TiVO by reporting usage statistics in press release

By: Do Follow 001

Do Follow 001 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:42:36 +0000

Review of DoFollow Diver Search Engine

DoFollow Diver is another search engine for those seeking “dofollow” websites. As the title suggests, I dived in to test it out and here are the results presented in the same format as the review of DoFollow Search – scores are out of ten for each …

By: Creative Live! Cam Video IM Pro » Make You Go Hmm

Creative Live! Cam Video IM Pro » Make You Go Hmm — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:42 +0000

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By: TDavid

TDavid — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:23:06 +0000

I’m sure a lot of the people making those AOL searches thought they were anonymous too, Bob. And did you actually read the procedure for TiVO not to track you? It’s an opt-out policy.

“TiVo also collects Diagnostic Information from a small number of randomly sampled TiVo DVRs for quality control purposes. If you subscribe to the TiVo Plus service and don’t want your Anonymous Viewing Information and Diagnostic Information used in any way, simply tell us by writing to us or calling us at 1-877-367-8486.”

Why is this opt-OUT and not opt-IN? No thanks.

By: Bob Lindman

Bob Lindman — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:10:52 +0000

You can block anonymous data collection by tivo. It’s not even hard to find that out. From tivo.com/privacy:

TiVo does collect Anonymous Viewing Information; that is, information about viewing choices made while using your TiVo DVR, but that does not identify you as an individual or household. In other words, there is no personally identifiable information associated with your Anonymous Viewing Information that could identify the Anonymous Viewing Information as coming from you or your household. You can elect to block TiVo from collecting Anonymous Viewing Information.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:27:01 +0000

I didn’t think there was anything wrong with publishing anonymous usage info until the AOL datadrop — now I am becoming “a privacy freak”. Aggregated data may be a different case, but you have to wonder how it might get hacked.