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Apple takes steps to fix Apple iTunes privacy issues

Macintosh maker Apple has acted as a responsible tech company and has taken steps to fix the privacy issues raised on their recent update to their Apple iTunes application. The company recently updated their iTunes, which had a feature called ‘MiniStore’. This feature communicated certain user details and the song he/she is listening to Apple servers and returns similar songs that the user might be interested in purchasing from the iTunes store.

However, privacy experts believed that their was a possible intrusion in this process as the system sent certain unique values related to that user to Apple. The company had already clarified that they were not storing the values for any further processing and placed instructions on their support site on how to disable that feature.

Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said in a statement: “We’ve listened to our users and made access to the MiniStore an opt-in feature. Apple does not keep any information related to the contents of our users’ music library.” The company has made the instructions on how to disable the service more accessible through the MiniStore, which makes it easier for the user to know what is actually going on when he is listening to music on iTunes.