Editing Digital video recorder (section)

==Privacy concerns==
Some (very few), but certainly not all, digital video recorders which are designed to send information to a service provider over a [[telephone line]] or [[Internet]] (or any other way) can gather and send real-time data on users' viewing habits.<ref>Martin, David: [http://www.cs.uml.edu/~dm/pubs/TiVo%20report.htm "TiVo's Data Collection and Privacy Practices."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928062056/http://www.cs.uml.edu/~dm/pubs/TiVo%20report.htm |date=2011-09-28 }}  26 March 2001. Last Viewed 18 September 2007.</ref> This problem was noted back in 2000<ref name=PVRs.AdAge99/> and was still considered a problem, specifically with TiVo, in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]
|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20151106-column.html
|title=Using TiVo? Your personal choices may be going straight to advertisers
|date=November 6, 2015}}</ref>