Things Tech Companies Do To Your Digital Stuff Without Telling You

For all the fantastic (and fantastical) things tech companies do these days, they’re still spectacularly bad at one thing: transparency. This week, a lawsuit against Apple revealed that, between 2007 and 2009, the company deleted music off of users’ iPods—specifically songs from non-iTunes sources—without telling them. If there’s one thing we learned from the U2 album debacle, it’s that people get cranky when you take liberties with their digital life (even when you’re giving them freebies).

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