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Originally Posted by rangepig
And something I was wondering (I posted another thread about this a few days ago):
How much data is Amazon collecting about the sideloaded non-Amazon titles when my Kindle phones home?
--Jim
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You're not the only one that wonders about this. I'm curious if I'll be able to decipher much of the communication sniffing the WiFi once I get it. Of course, if I was sending stuff like that, I'd encrypt it so I'm not very hopeful I'll figure anything new out.
I will say this much: I've had many books on my Kindle that were not purchased through Amazon and are not available anywhere legally without DRM. These books usually had the metadata clearly set so it would be quite trivial to figure out that I had removed DRM from books. I've never heard a peep out of them about it. Now, that doesn't mean they aren't gathering stats on our reading habits and how many or what type of personal files we're keeping on our Kindles. If they are, I've never heard it leaked from Amazon employees or anything. I think they have to tread lightly with this sort of thing if they don't want massively bad PR.