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Anything to do with the privacy issues that others are complaining about for the Kindle? No.
Does it single out Kindles? No.
Does it even mention eBook readers? No.
Are you trolling? Yes.
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Last time I checked, I was responding to a very particular argument that claimed that "
most of us are 'nobodies' the government and big business is indifferent toward", with the obvious implication that any effect of Amazon assembling data from our accounts could only be negligible.
Of course, last time I checked, apologist rhetoric trying to defame rather than address the actual argument was the very definition of "trolling", so forgive me for not holding my breath for you to start discussing these things in a less accusatory manner.
Oh, and to answer one of your previous posts, you can't simply substitute Amazon for any other online vendor. It's one thing for a computer hardware retailer to leak some of its data. It is something completely different for a major online bookstore to do that. As TIME points out, our reading purchases can be extremely incriminatory:
"One of the ACLU's anonymous clients — an atheist who happens to work with a lot of religious people — does not want Amazon to reveal that she bought the books God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and The God Delusion. Another client does not want Amazon to reveal that it shipped her books that are critical of the President, including Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation."
So even though I generally like the company and I most certainly like its product, I still think it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that merely liking and buying a product shouldn't force us to sacrifice some our privacy in order to gain access some of its most basic functions. I guess you can call my conviction "trolling".