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The Guardian on TiVo & Discovery
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Posted by: tvpredictions

Top UK newspaper suggests TiVo is violating privacy for switching channels to the Discovery Channel. I think that's a bit severe, but it's an interesting story.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadca...,894230,00.html

Posted by: LynnL999

This "article" is inflammatory nonsense.

Exactly who is TiVo being criticized by? I searched the article in vain for a single quote by an outraged subscriber or privacy advocate. Where are the "TiVo customers argue that the move... is an invasion of privacy." Why aren't any of them named or quoted? Where is this "row" occuring, in which TiVo is purportedly "embroiled"? According to whom is this "finding" "controversial"?

And I'd like the someone to explain exactly how changing a channel implicates privacy anyway? Perhaps (at best) it implicates one's convenience -- after all, it takes a good three or four seconds to change the channel when you turn the TV on in the morning -- but exactly what does that have to do with privacy? Why is changing the channel a "Big Brother tactic[]" anyway?

The fact that this was purportedly "uncovered by the US-based TVPredictions.com website," when it has been a well-known fact among TiVo users groups for ages, demonstrates the total lack of research that went into this "article."

I hope TiVo responds.

Lynn

Posted by: Hunter Green

How on earth is it a violation of privacy in any sense at all? I just don't see the connection. Even if I bought that there's something "wrong" with it changing the channel, in what way does that have anything whatever to do with privacy?

Posted by: phone1

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TiVo customers argue that the move, uncovered by the US-based TVPredictions.com website, is an invasion of privacy.

Tooting our own horn a bit are we? ;) Interesting that you "uncovered" this many months after it began and has been much discussed here. Yet in all that time, not even our most paranoid members (oh, and we have them) considered it some kind of conspiracy. :rolleyes: