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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
I'm also a bit befuddled by people worrying about Amazon 'knowing what they read'... Err, you just *bought* books from them, *of course* they're gonna know what you read!
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They are going to know what you bought from them from the sales records for certain.
If that is the only thing they want to know, then let them use the sales records.
So either their firmware contractor (or firmware department head) sold them a bill of goods on all the man-hours to provision this device to report on consumer use or they want something other than what they can get from their own sales records.
They certainly expect to learn things which in the aggregate are of more value to them than their cost of providing "Free Wifi" and (the) "Free (portion of) 3G".
A standard business transaction of "value received" (the "free" stuff) for "consideration given" (the information sent).
I personally would like to have a "information sharing", advanced settings, panel.
Let the owner choose what information they are willing to share.
This thread demonstrates that opinion differs among the owners.
As others have posted, to discuss this any further requires more detail in exactly what is being sent. At this point we only know for certain that
something is being sent.