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Originally Posted by FF2
Thanks for the various replies and points of view. As for collecting that much data - GoogleMapping seems to have, ahem, "inadvertently" snooped on wifi as they were taking pictures (how does one accidentally grab wifi data while photographing neighborhoods?) so I'm sure Amazon has as much capacity as google.
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I could be wrong, but I think Google was looking for free wifi spots to include on their maps - legit ones, that is. They didn't take into account the large numbers of people who don't secure their wifi (*wince*) and THEN get paranoid about google 'snooping'.
<mini-rant>Guess what - your neighbours might just be downloading porn via YOUR wifi, if it's unsecured. Thought your neighbour was a drug dealer because of all the cars pulling up outside? Nah, they just needed to do some internet banking via your wifi. Or worse, nick your internet banking ID and password.</mini-rant>
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Originally Posted by FF2
I'm one of those who is not much into grocery affinity cards and my pictures are not generally x-rated nor my reading tastes but it is still something I wonder about.
I guess I get use to it or send the unit back. (.... slowly, I slip down that slope...)
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Anything you buy from Amazon, Amazon can know about pretty easily. Chances are, anything you put on your kindle is largely invisible to Amazon unless they specifically connect to it to fix a problem. Otherwise the kindle would need to be sending data back to Amazon every time it's connected to the internet, and it's highly likely that some techie would've noticed and started screaming blue murder about it.