Online Privacy? There is no privacy, get over with it!: Amazon peddles with Kindles with remote delete on all devices
By Tarry Singh at 19 July, 2009, 5:46 am
Scott McNealy said long ago during Sun’s glory days back in 99: “Get over it!”. In an online world, this is true and most of us (subconsciously) know it. We all know and (somehow) fear God or anything that exists up there depending on your beliefs, but with online everything is being stored in large repositories (See my upcoming reports on Cloud Computing by clicking Real-time Analysis free reports/researches) and we are totally being watched. At the time!
I am in favor of some sort of control in the online publishing and print industry. There is way too much lawlessness around distributing content across the planet. Everything that goes as a digital content/product online becomes prone to copying and abuse. For the same reason I keep warning folks that soon with virtualization, if things are not controlled and believe they ARE NOT!, then it will meet the same fate as other worlds who are meeting death in the wild jungle which we all the web.
Anyways here is an interesting stuff where Amazon has tried to take the law in its own hands and suddenly wiped off all of George Orwell’s stuff online from your Kindles. So wow! How did they get there and how they did it is not interesting to me. as I type this text I know someone is watching me, I just want you to tell me when you do something to me or with me!
I find it worrisome and don’t think will be buying a Kindle soon. I will even refuse a free Kindle until someone tells me exactly what happened.
Be it is it may, If Amazon can remote delete books on your Kindle, and you have no method on the device for backing that data up, since the e-book files purchased from Amazon cannot be transferred to a PC or any other storage device without violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws due to the completely closed nature of the Kindle platform, what else is Amazon capable of doing on your Kindle?
It would seem that if it can remote execute instructions and download and delete content on a Kindle, it stands to reason it can inventory ALL content on a Kindle device, such as PDF files, text documents and anything else a Kindle can read. It can also stand to reason that if it can inventory your entire digital library of material stored on that device, that it may even be able to search for key words and phrases and download those to a data warehouse of Amazon’s choosing.
Much like the way Google handles volumetric data and spiders the ‘net, this would allow Amazon to develop metrics and business intelligence (if they haven’t done this already) that would enable them to do sophisticated trend analysis of what the collective Kindle zeitgeist is reading, when they read stuff, or when they give up on books. Much like the way Apple handles its music content, like a remote Nielsen system for e-books, including books downloaded in 3rd-party formats such as Mobipocket by competing E-Book stores.
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