“Add music-player software to the list of technologies the European Union is considering regulating in the name of privacy. Because many European nations have strict privacy laws, the EU is trying to hammer out policies to deal with the numerous new products that share people’s personal information–even if the data is only collected and stored in aggregate form. In a new working document adopted May 30 and recently made public, an EU data-protection group studied the many challenges of enforcing privacy protections when it comes to technology that tracks people without their knowledge, such as cookies and scripts. It also extended the group’s privacy study to include music software…”
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