Microsoft response to WMP 8 Privacy Advistory
BytesMan | at | by Mike
We thoroughly reviewed the points you made and do not believe the DVD metadata lookup process in MPXP presents a user privacy concern. However, your feedback has helped a lot in a key area: We realized we needed to provide more specific information about the DVD metadata process within the MPXP privacy statement.
While the MPXP privacy statement discusses cookies in general, we plan to amend it to specifically include DVD lookup. We also will make it clear that we do not associate this cookie with personally identifiable information.
Our design goal in MPXP was to ensure a DVD experience consistent with how consumers use Windows Media Player for other tasks. We aimed take DVD beyond the limited experience possible using a DVD player remote control. To do that, we added DVD chapter title navigation to Windows Media Player. DVDs often do not include chapter information, and when they do there's no standard way of storing them, so MPXP has to go up to a Web service to get chapters.