Pandora - Free Online Music, but.............

[tmazz]

Many of us here on AN enjoy using Pandora to build "stations" of music we enjoy at no charge. But it now looks like free may be coming at a charge of a different kind. It seems that Pandora is now being investigated as one of the online companies that has been selling user data that it collects to advertisers, so while it may be free in terms of monetary charges, its real cost to users just might be coming in terms of a loss of privacy. Details here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/12/us-pandoramedia-idUSTRE71A7TU20110212

And for those who are interested Pandora filed paperwork a few weeks back for an IPO:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/12/us-pandoramedia-idUSTRE71A7TU20110212