Pinch Media, user privacy, and 'spyware' Pinch Media's analytics product has recently been described as 'spyware' by an anonymous critic, who has attracted some public attention. We want to address this directly. Spyware and analytics are quite distinct - spyware is software that tracks personally-identifiable information with a malicious or deceptive intent, while analytics tracks anonymous information for benign, useful purposes. Pinch Media's services are the latter - nothing personally-identifying is ever tracked.
When Pinch Analytics is installed within an application, the following information is sent back on each application run: ... http://www.pinchmedia.com/blog/pinch-media-user-privacy-and-spyware/ *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
