Thread: Can you pull your kindle off the Amazon grid?
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:23 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
When Jill Dando was killed, the person who was originally convicted of doing it was questioned because he searched Google for information on her a few days earlier. Everything you do online is monitored and stored away for future use by both your ISP and most of the websites you go to. Most of it is just used to target advertising at you, but your government will also have access to that data. But unless they were already watching you for some reason, they would probabyl never look at it.

With Amazon and other commercial sites there is a lot to be gained from watching what people do, and I doubt Amazon would pass up on such an opportunity. If they know what books you read and how long you take to read them, they will know precisely when to present you with a list of books you might be interested in. They could even have samples of those books sent to your Kindle automatically on the day they expect you to finish the book you are reading.
That's possible but it's not probable.

is everything you do monitored online? in terms of technology that wouldn't be that hard but to string it together well yes it would be. Google doesn't identify users that are unregistered. The issue I have with your argument is you didn't say that barry george already had issues with assaulting women that clearly made him more of a suspect in that case. It's not like it was totally random without probable cause for the police to suspect it wasn't him. It's like the NSA Eschelon argument...if the technology is true ok fine but having only a mere 4,000 employees to examine everything is next to impossible.

Now there are some technologies that do feed back but even then it can be a bit limited. Digital cable feeds back as to what was watched and that can be used for marketing to get more specific advertising..but..people skip commercials so the argument is moot.

If the argument in the thread suggests that somehow amazon can get remote access of a kindle and remove content that just doesn't happen. If amazon was THAT worried about everything then why is the device so open? Why not block Calibre and Doukan ?
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