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DiapDealer and others' findings that logs are probably not being routinely transmitting were comforting to me to a degree. But for my own sake, the existence on the device of a second-by-second detailed profile of my reading habits that is requestable by Amazon is an upsetting privacy threat. And if I'm not mistaken, the presence of the showlog script means that they intended it to be easy to remotely request. If there's the potential to sell that data (realistically, in aggregate format) or use it to help their business, why would Amazon leave that money on the table?
But it would make a big difference to me too if someone did find proof that the logs are being transmitted. (I'm curious as to what happens to the older logs, since the gzipped ones in my var/local/logs only went back 2 of the 3 months of my ownership) Really appreciate your work, Kindle Dissector!
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