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Originally Posted by avantman42
I'm currently waiting for my Kindle, and I'm not particularly concerned about this, but I do want to make a point. The problem isn't necessarily Amazon itself, the (potential) problem is Amazon employees. Amazon may not give two figs about me, but one of their employees might, and if they have access to data about my Kindle, they might use it against me.
Allow me to give an example. The police in the UK can get my address from my car registration number, but generally don't unless they have a good reason. However, individual policemen have been known to abuse that ability. Here's an example - a policeman got an address of a man that had annoyed his friend, then the friend went to his house and threw a brick through his window. |
I don't understand how a Kindle plays into this.
If an Amazon employee wants a customer's address, presumably they can get that whether or not the customer has a Kindle.
What can they find out about you from your Kindle specifically, and how could they "use that against you?" That you read trashy novels? Again, from logs, the most they can see is titles, not the files themselves.
I'd also be pretty surprised if every CS rep at Amazon had access to things like Kindle log files identified to a specific user. And I'd also be surprised if access to such information wasn't itself logged, so that if there was an issue, it could be traced back to a specific employee.