Some TiVo users say the Janet Jackson Super Bowl "malfunction" made them realize that their beloved digital video recorders could be watching them.
CNET is reporting that users of the TIVo service have been expressing concerns over privacy issues after TiVo announced that the Janet Jackson moment was the most “TiVoed” moment to date on its service.
TiVo said users had watched the skin-baring incident nearly three times more than any other moment during the Super Bowl broadcast, sparking headlines that dramatically publicized the power of the company’s longstanding data-gathering practices.
“It’s just sort of creepy,” longtime TiVo subscriber Sandra Munozshe wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com.
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