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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Will Amazon’s Kindle Fire cause privacy concerns?
If you stopped reading the article you would have missed it. I was reading about the new Amazon Kindle Fire today in the New York Times. The last several paragraphs got my attention:
“The original Kindle was meant to remove the retailer’s reliance on the physical book at a moment when a successful e-reader appeared inevitable. Amazon decided it was better to cannibalize its own future than let a competitor do it.
With the Fire, every dollar Amazon loses on the device could be more than made up for by the data gained. The Silk browser, by virtue of being situated in the cloud, will record every Web page that users visit. That has implications for privacy and commerce.
“Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other stores your customers are shopping in and what prices they’re being offered there,” Chris Espinosa, an Apple engineer, wrote on his personal blog.”
Did you see what I saw? Here it is again:
“The Silk browser, by virtue of being situated in the cloud, will record every Web page that users visit. That has implications for privacy and commerce.”
Put it under a microscope: “will record every Web page that users visit…”
Have you met Big Brother? He goes by many names: the US Government, Google, Facebook, etc. Now meet little brother: Amazon.com.
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Vick Mickunas
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TweetA famous writer on the Red Sox collapse…
She just tweeted it so this is public in a way but I shan’t mention her name. This famous writer tweets:
“The Sox are done, and we are sad,
The collapse is epic, the critics mad.
Pedroia, Ellsbury, they were stars;
Methinks Francona bound for Mars.”
I say: Go Tigers!
Vick Mickunas
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