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...turns out that the program--used by more than 13 million people around the world, including me--has been tracking our music-listening habits, recording the titles of the CDs we play and beaming the information back to headquarters. Whenever we go online, a sneaky little subroutine has been quietly shuttling that data over to Real's servers and dumping them into their files. Since I had to register my name to get the jukebox software, who I am and what music I like have been surreptitiously databased by Glaser's company. Without my or anybody else's consent...
...final seal of good privacy housekeeping. But right now, there's a log file somewhere in Seattle that has my name in it, as well as the Allan Sherman CDs that I've been playing, and that ticks me off. If a good company like Glaser's can go astray, who knows what the bad guys...
Except for the security guard roaming the hallways and the extended vigil kept by the staff, the environment described in your article is very reminiscent of what I remember from the early '80s. Kids are kids wherever you go. They just need a little more protection these days--sometimes from themselves. I am glad to see that Webster Groves High is trying to be proactive without creating a police state within the school. STACY DURAN GOLDEN Valley Village, Calif...
...months before the first primary vote is to be cast, they've interviewed or surveyed or analyzed everybody else in the country. I'm the only one left. If I'm not willing to be a focus group, there can be no more focus groups, and everything will go sort of fuzzy...
...Maybe instead of another focus group we should just go ahead and have the vote...