03-22-2010, 01:43 PM | #16 | |
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And Amazon states cleary "may be stored", not "may be used or altered or deleted". What are you afraid of, actually? Which would be fine with me. It's your sentiment. Just curious. |
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03-22-2010, 02:16 PM | #17 | |
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I'm not sure I'm "afraid" of anything, but what I am uncomfortable with is the idea that, as a condition of buying this device I have to give this company the right to do these things. Maybe I want to keep business documents on there for the purposes of reading them away from a computer, maybe I've got legal documents on there, maybe I've got personal information about myself or colleagues on there. There seem to be all sorts of legitimate reasons for not wanting Amazon to be able to access that data. However, there seems to be no way of preventing it - indeed, I am required to agree to allowing it if if I buy the device - if I also use the device for the purpose of downloading and reading books. |
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03-22-2010, 02:22 PM | #18 | |
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Really, a store which has a purchase history of your orders need to know anything at all about the status of content on your device, needs to know about content on the device unrelated to the store and needs to send a record of your location and device status at all times? This will be news to a lot of device manufacturers. Last edited by DawnFalcon; 03-22-2010 at 02:26 PM. |
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03-22-2010, 02:52 PM | #19 | |
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The South Texas brush country is just as empty and is lots warmer..... Going off the grid is slowly reaching price parity to being on the grid... Hmm...I wonder if you could get by with prepaid debit cards for online purchases... Don't have a cell phone... Waste of money for me. If I did, I'd take the battery out of it unless I planned to use it.... Y'all missed one! Do your downloads at a public wifi hotspot on a cheap, disposable netbook you bought for cash... "The price for freedom is eternal vigilance." Part of that vigilance is not letting everybody and his dog track you whenever they feel like it. Of course, if shiny is more important to you.... |
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03-22-2010, 03:46 PM | #20 | |
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03-22-2010, 03:51 PM | #21 | |
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b) It's a trade-off in exchange for the ability to sync your ebook data to multiple devices. c) Although I have no doubt that Amazon engages in extensive data mining, I can't imagine they would actually find any useful information in my bookmarks. Quote:
b) Keep in mind any work computer, or an email account offered to you by an employer, can be monitored and accessed at any time and for any reason by your employer. c) Also, lots of data is moving "into the cloud." E.g. Dropbox stores and syncs data to Amazon S3 servers; Google Docs resides on their servers, etc. d) Oh, and every bit of email you have is sitting on a server somewhere -- and in general an email is about as secure and private as a postcard. So every day, you are likely releasing a ton of private and financial data into the Wild West of the Internets. Quote:
For my part, I see no particular cause for concern. YMMV. But if you're worried about this, I will say you are going to find it harder and harder to deal with an increasingly interconnected world, let alone fill out your census form. |
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03-22-2010, 05:25 PM | #23 |
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I agree with Kali (now THAT's a big change!), if you have insurance, get medical care, have a bank account or credit card, deal with the government (IRS, driver's license), you are in someone's big database. Amazon is the least of my worries.
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Whilst I take the point that everyone's at it anyway (data capture that is!), I'm not sure I follow the argument that a bit more of it doesn't matter. I've only been on MR a month and hadn't seen previous threads on the topic, but having looked a bit further it's interesting that some MR Kindle owners were concerned enough about it to try to write a hack to stop it happening, see this thread.
I guess it does come down to a trade off - if what Amazon offers in terms of service makes it worth agreeing to them doing all this other stuff (and what this other stuff amounts to seems to be less than certain), then that's fine. For me, when I was looking at the Amazon site with a view to buying a Kindle as a second reader this morning I was brought up short by what I was required to agree to. So, for now, I'll continue to side load stuff on to my unconnected, unsynced European IREX DR800 - and feel, naively, a bit safer for that. |
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And I keep a BeBook (Hanlin V3) for the same reason... |
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y'all have an over inflated sense of self importance if you really believe that Amazon gives a rats left testicle about the content on your Kindle. so what if you have all of Harry Potter on it? how is Amazon to know where it came from? anyone is perfectly legally within their rights to tear up those books and scan them in. do you REALLY think anyone is going to spend time proving otherwise? now if you were doing it and SELLING the scanned copies, yeah, they'd probably get a little pissed and do something about it.
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Besides, "When Freedoms are chiseled away......", or does that only apply to freedoms you agree with? |
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03-22-2010, 07:21 PM | #29 |
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Sometimes I wonder if these people aren't being paid to say things like this about Amazon. Look at how many other ereaders that either have or will have 3g connections, and will be doing the same thing (Apple, for one). And if you really want to get paranoid, go read the "Terms and Conditions" from just about anything else. People, get a life!
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You (and others) see no cause for concern? There are legions of historical examples to prove you wrong. Your attitudes of It Can't Happen Here will serve the next purveyors of dystopia very well. I suspect you were a mere babe in 1984 so welcome to the Brave New World. Last edited by gastan; 03-22-2010 at 07:33 PM. |
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