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guiyoforward · 10-11-2010, 01:35 AM

Hi everyone, I'm not someone who gets very concerned about privacy issues (though those people deserve all my respect!) but I keep bumping into slightly inapproapriate (and potentially creepy) "features" from Amazon.
When you send a file for conversion to your @free.kindle.com account, Amazon states that "Personal documents you transfer to your Kindle are not backed up at Amazon.com", but then it sends you an email announcing that the file has been sent to the Kindle with a link to that file to download from Amazon's site at any later time.
This might be convenient, but:
a) No way to opt out - no "send and delete" option
b) No way to review or delete later on - not even a way to find in your kindle account these somehow-stored-but-not-officially-backed-up files.
I tried de-registering my Kindle, and the file was still there to be downloaded from the Amazon link.
The "Personal documents you transfer to your Kindle are not backed up at Amazon.com" is at least misleading, and potentially much worse.
Any thoughts or experience on this?
Thanks
g.

10-11-2010, 01:35 AM	#1
guiyoforward Zealot Posts: 101 Karma: 7104 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle DX Graphite	Kindle and privacy - Amazon keeps files sent to @free.kindle.com (but says it doesnt) Hi everyone, I'm not someone who gets very concerned about privacy issues (though those people deserve all my respect!) but I keep bumping into slightly inapproapriate (and potentially creepy) "features" from Amazon. When you send a file for conversion to your @free.kindle.com account, Amazon states that "Personal documents you transfer to your Kindle are not backed up at Amazon.com", but then it sends you an email announcing that the file has been sent to the Kindle with a link to that file to download from Amazon's site at any later time. This might be convenient, but: a) No way to opt out - no "send and delete" option b) No way to review or delete later on - not even a way to find in your kindle account these somehow-stored-but-not-officially-backed-up files. I tried de-registering my Kindle, and the file was still there to be downloaded from the Amazon link. The "Personal documents you transfer to your Kindle are not backed up at Amazon.com" is at least misleading, and potentially much worse. Any thoughts or experience on this? Thanks g.