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Originally Posted by Mario1up
I just saw this thread and didn't read much, but has anybody realized that the coordinate collection is probably to help find and track lost/stolen Kindles?
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The coordinates are not precise enough to help with that, and also I doubt very much that Amazon or the police would care about it. Some people could argue that a mobile phone also tracks you all the time (see
http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte...data-retention for a dramatic illustration) but that's inherent to how mobile phones work. I can't see why an ebook reader needs to send that data to its parent company (even using wifi!)