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Originally Posted by esecallum
also i hear amazon will keep a back up and they can also delete your books remotely which means they can also read your PRIVATE DOCUMENTS remotely ,copy them or use that info to steal from you like credit card details.
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I'm pretty sure Amazon already has my credit card number. Yes, I suppose they could read my private documents if they wanted. The software programs on my computer could be forwarding my private documents to other people, too. These companies have privacy policies and you can either trust them to stick to the policy or not. There is no way to prevent someone from violating these policies. We rely on their own fear of getting caught. I'm pretty sure if Amazon was going through our private documents, some whistle blower would have spread the word already.
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you may have heard how the book 1984 by Orwell was remotely deleted by Amazon from a students kindle and he sued them
This means they must have accessed his kindles files remotely.This means they can read all your private files and copy them and distribute them,delete them,sell them or pass them to police.
or a disgruntled amazon employee could steal them or do i.d fraud or even download disgusting dirty child poern on to the kindle to destroy you.
in fact these concerns have not been discussed at all in the excitement.
perhaps we should discuss them now.
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if you look through the forums, you will find them discussed ad nauseum. We did, in fact, hear about the 1984 thing. Since this is a forum dedicated to ebook reading, we manage to keep up on things like that. As it is, Amazon promised to never do that again. Believe what you will. Yes, Amazon employees could commit ID fraud. So can the pizza boy you gave your credit card to last week. Most of us share a good deal of our information on a daily basis and leave ourselves vulnerable. I don't see Amazon as posing a unique risk.
As for the child porn, I think I'm much more at risk of being framed by someone I know. Besides, I doubt any individual Amazon employee would have the ability to place something on my Kindle and erase all record of it.
If you want to discuss privacy policy, it would be best to start a new thread. This tread is already quite long and it's not really on topic.