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/

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