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Originally Posted by tautologico
This recurring stuff about Amazon being a "Big Brother" and all always remind me how parents are generally worried that their children might die in an accident with a gun, and how when something like this happens the media reports the case with visibility, and yet the number one cause of death for children is drowning, mostly in pools.
So people regularly use the Internet and credit cards but are worried because Amazon stores their notes and bookmarks. Well, a lot of businesses will keep data about you, your patterns and habits that are much more sensitive, IMO, than a bunch of notes and bookmarks. And yet, people don't complain.
To avoid all the "Big Brothers" around you'd have to be a bona fide Luddite and go off the grid entirely. Like it or not, we trade bits and pieces of privacy for convenience, and we do it everyday.
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tautologico, the OP is from Brazil. If I recall correctly, it wasn't that long ago that Brazil was a military dictatorship. South American countries do not have the 200-year history of freedom of the press which the US enjoys.
Just a few months ago Google agreed to obey the wishes of the Chinese government regarding the blocking of sites that the Chinese government did not wish the Chinese people to have access to. If Google will agree to do something un-American in China in order to continue to do business there, I think that it is easy to imagine that Amazon will take a similar approach and obey a South American government's wishes in order to continue to do business in that country.
My concern is not that Jeff Bezos wishes to play Big Brother, but rather that he will go along with the policies of governments which do indeed wish to maintain Big Brother control over their peoples.