With wispernet turned on, Amazon can get the name of every file on your Kindle. They can certainly also read the contents of some files (bookmarks, notes, reading position) and I can't see any reason why they would have restricted that ability to just certain files.
So - if Amazon wanted, they could track every book you read on your Kindle, when it was added, when you started reading, how quickly you read each chapter, the contents of the books you read.
I don't expect Amazon would do that, but then - I didn't expect them to delete books from people's Kindles either.
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Originally Posted by coleman
So because I've lost my Sony Reader, it looks like I'm trying out a Kindle next. Given the recent 1984 bit, and what I've been reading, I am confused on one part. What is Amazon able to do/learn about things that you put on the Kindle yourself via USB? I am fine with them knowing what I buy from them, that's just going to be a given. But I'm not sure how I feel about them being able to exercise interactions with any other content on the device. Presumably it's possible, but has anything been said about that?
Thanks!
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