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kneelb4zod · 03-17-2014, 09:55 PM

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Well, perhaps if you switched from Martin to Heinlein . . . .

Have you checked if those reading habits data are being sent to Amazon or (the same thing) being kept on Amazon's cloud?

I ask because the developers concerned with privacy issues might become interested in separating this feature from Amazon's data mining operation.

Once I'm done with Martin I likely will

As far as privacy is concerned, it appears that amazon does collect this info, which they claim is "not personally identifiable".

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Edit:
I opened up the freetime.db file from the root \system\freetime\ folder. It's mostly gibberish to me, but there is a string of lines that seem to be tying certain classes of data to my amazon account. I've pasted it below, perhaps it's meaningful to somebody.

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