03-28-2010, 12:40 AM | #1 |
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For Those Of You Worried About Privacy...
...you've lost that battle a long time ago without even knowing you were fighting in the war.
There was a previous thread about privacy that got derailed before I could add these two cents about the subject. Basically what I wanted to say was that those of you who are hesitant about buying a Kindle due to Amazon's privacy policy really need to know that any information Amazon can sell about you is probably already available from multiple other sources. So don't let that be the deciding factor regarding your purchase. Those of you interested in exactly what information can be accessed easily about you should check out this video of a lecture by a private investigator. I found it very interesting, and confirmed a lot of what I suspected about what information is available out there. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...6293369601334# |
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03-28-2010, 05:42 AM | #3 |
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Steve Rambam put the finger on Amazon, Google, Paypal, Ebay, Skype, Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo, Monster, etc. Nice to know they're reading all my posts and emails, or monitoring my location, whenever I'm online. Dear officer: I did not run a red light at 10 PM tonight, because mobileread detected I was reading a forum post. Can I get an alibi?
Good post, Xanthe. I hope you don't get accused of wearing a tin foil hat by Amazon worshipper. LOL. |
03-28-2010, 06:07 AM | #4 |
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Hmm it seems like the bots he's talking about that search and store information and then sell it are violating your copyrights on any information you happen to type. Class action lawsuit for massive DMCA violations anyone? I didn't make these stupid copyright laws why not show the government exactly what kind of genie they let out of the bottle.
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and thanks for the dig on the name. it came about more or less as a joke. which you would know if you bothered to pay attention Last edited by Patricia; 03-28-2010 at 01:28 PM. Reason: Edited for language that contravenes our posting guidelines. |
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03-28-2010, 01:29 PM | #6 |
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We've had a number of complaints about the language in the post above, so I've edited it to comply with our posting guidelines. Personal insults are not on. Feel free to disagree with ideas, preferably in a courteous way.
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03-28-2010, 01:48 PM | #7 |
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and for the record, I didn't even swear. gotta love the double standards around here. Last edited by kindlekitten; 03-28-2010 at 02:24 PM. |
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03-28-2010, 02:24 PM | #9 |
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03-28-2010, 02:28 PM | #10 |
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03-28-2010, 02:38 PM | #11 |
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I'm not necessarily agreeing with the censorship of your post. However, to respond to that by calling for more censorship seems anomalous from somebody whose signature line extols the virtues of free speech.
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03-28-2010, 02:47 PM | #12 | |
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They've taken a lot of my money over the years and will continue to do so in the future. I knew going in that my purchases would be in a database forever, and would probably be sold. I've reached an age where I refuse to be ashamed or embarassed by anything I do or have done; there are too many other things in life to angst over. If I had a Kindle, I wouldn't worry about them knowing what non-Kindle files I had on it, as kindlekitten has pointed out, since their access is limited to the data purchased from them. Nor would I worry about them sucking back my purchases; what happened was an isolated incident affecting a very limited number of purchasers, and their payments were refunded. To me that is not a big deal. Besides, if I consider a book important enough, I'm going to buy the physical book, not an ebook. Besides, if I was putting sensitive documents or work documents on a reader, I would make sure that they were encrypted first, and if the reader doesn't support encryption, I wouldn't use it for such a purpose - I'd use a netbook instead. It just seems to me, from reading various posts on the forum - and not singling out any posters because I don't know any of you very well - that some people get caught up with the minutia of privacy issues, not realizing that the point is really moot. For those interested, there is a part two of that video available on Google Videos. |
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03-28-2010, 06:10 PM | #13 | |
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Yeahbut. You see, all of these privacy fears can be readily solved by a judicious application of .45 caliber copper-jacketed lead to the head of each and every CEO and senior staff who chooses to invade personal privacy that way. Derek |
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Look: Overly broad privacy policies are, in general, a warning sign, and it costs very little for a company to fix them. There is nothing in the Amazon Kindle user agreement which states that they only store information about items they've sold you, if they can only technically do that, then why not put that in the user agreement? It's hardly a moot point for anyone who's even marginally sensitive to privacy issues in general. It's a great way for a company to show their cooperation with the community, for starters, by having a sensible and limited privacy policy! Quote:
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