Thread: What's with the Paranoia?
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Old 12-08-2020, 03:29 PM   #215
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Originally Posted by hildea View Post
That part was a general comment about the impact of erosion of online privacy, and the power of huge companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. My ereader is from a pretty small company, so registering that one probably doesn't have any impact on those issues.

Although I read a news story recently (link, in Norwegian) about a Norwegian citizen using an app developed in Slovakia, and the data from that app ended up in an American company which sells data to US law enforcement, among others. So it's not completely farfetched to be concerned about data flowing from an obscure ereader to powerful entities which I might not want to trust with my personal data.
Can you tell me of one person who has gotten in trouble by registering a Kobo, Amazon, or B&N Reader?
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