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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Or create a fake ID and buy your Kindle books using Amazon gift cards (available at chain drugstores all over).
They'll still know all your habits but they won't be able to tie them to you by name. (just by IP and physical address).
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Unfortunately they'll know a lot more than this. According Cindy Cohn, legal director at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation " They'll know if you skip to the end to read how it turns out but also where you read you're ebooks. Kindles, iPads and other e-readers have geo-location abilities; using GPS or data from Wi-Fi and cell phone towers, it wouldn't be difficult for the devices to track their own locations in the physical world."
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132058...ding-up-on-you
According this article Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony declined the request for an interview about e-reader data. Why? What's the problem if you have nothing to hide?
This in my opinion is bad, very bad...