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Originally Posted by TechniSol
Robko,
Reread my posts. As I suggested, an reader based hashing algorithm could be employed so that the server would store only a hashed version of the eBook title or whatever identifier had been hashed. The opposite de-hashing algorithm on the reader would resolve to the correct database item so the page number could be transferred.
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Fair enough, but since you wouldn't be able to have a truly random hashing or you wouldn't be know which books were which on either end (i.e. it might not be plain text, but Kobo would be able to decode it on the server if they decided to because they know how it's hashed on other end). I don't disagree with your comments or thoughts, I'm just playing devils advocate that it might not be quite sa simple to do within the bounds of the law it would first seem.
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Originally Posted by shalym
I really don't understand why this is in violation of Canadian law for Kobo, but not for Amazon. Kobo is no longer a Canadian company any more than Amazon is--it may have started as a Canadian company, but it's now owned by Rakuten, which is NOT a Canadian company. The Kobo division of Rakuten may have it's main office in Canada, but the company is incorporated in Japan, not Canada, and I would think Japanese law would prevail.
Shari
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It doesn't matter whether it is a Canadian company or not, if they are operating within Canada they have to follow Canadian laws while operating within Canada. As an example of this, the Canadian Privacy commissioner has managed to get Facebook etc to change some of their policies because they didn't conform. As for Amazon, if I understand it correctly, in order for you to sync sideloaded content you have to upload it to their cloud. Once you do that, you've explicitly given them the knowledge of what you have so it wouldn't break laws. Yes, Kobo could in theory do this too, but that's a lot of server space (even though they are now a division of a large company). And yes, in theory it would be possible to have a check box to allow you to opt in or out of it transferring the data, but that probably would need to be on both devices and again would probably not be as simple as it might appear at first blush and could cause support headaches for what might be little gain on Kobo's part.
Heck, maybe Kobo just wants to force everyone to buy everything from them, I don't know
. The above is just my random thoughts on possible reasons why they haven't done it.