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US Congressman wants answers from Amazon about Kindle Fire privacy questions

article published on 17 October, 2011

A US legislator is asking Amazon to answer some questions about potential privacy implications related to their Kindle Fire tablet. Representative Ed Markey sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asking for detailed information about data the company plans to collect via the Kindle Fire's Silk web browser. Silk will use a new Amazon cloud service to speed up browsing. In order to make ... [ read the full article ]

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If you use the web, your subject to data mining, ever heard of a cookie? Even if Amazon offered an opt out for the service, most people wouldn't even notice. I'm not saying it is right but everyone is doing it. If this crusader really wanted to stifle data mining they would go after facebook, they wrote the book. I smell a competing corporation stuffing cash in his hands, or trips to exotic locales, or "favors."
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