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Originally Posted by LucyLu
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... |
I would be amazed if Sony is actually capable of collecting ereader data from the reader.
Helen