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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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By Litigious
September 30, 2011 10:39 AM | Link to this
I guess a good question is how to define privacy and then ask how much of it is really left. The user should be able to opt of having their consumer preferences tracked. I do like the suggestions for reading based on my previous purchases on my current Kindle, and I assume some popups on my internet browser are individualized?
By Mark from St Paul
September 30, 2011 10:12 AM | Link to this
Just this morning I opened Google Reader and on the home page I found they’d gone to two columns, and the right hand column listed all my downloads from the previous 24 hours! But I’m not worried about Google or Amazon. I’m worried about Google and Amazon being sued into revealing my private data by ambitious prosecutors and greedy corporations. Sharing data makes the internet work better. Sharing data with litigious lawyers makes life not worth living.
By Irishguy
September 30, 2011 1:08 AM | Link to this
Stories like this make me glad I haven’t yet embraced this new technology. Guess I’ll stick my hard copies for a while longer.