4 ms·
Is it? Sounds like a strong privacy argument to me. Especially if Silk doesn't offer an opt-out. There will be wayyy too much useful data in Amazon's lap for th
by bprater 15y ago
Is it? Sounds like a strong privacy argument to me. Especially if Silk doesn't offer an opt-out. There will be wayyy too much useful data in Amazon's lap for them to simply ignore it.
- ErrantX 15y agoApparently it does offer an opt out. Which is nice.
- jodrellblank 15y agoEspecially if Silk doesn't offer an opt-out Which it does. "Fortunately Amazon will support an "off-cloud" mode for Silk. This lets users opt-out of the benefits of using EC2 while retaining the traditional privacy benefits of connecting directly to remote web sites." - http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fires-silk-browser-sounds-privacy-alarm-bells/ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fir...
- joezydeco 15y agoIs there a point where even "anonymized" data can be mined and recombined into something that is used to personalize and sell things better?
- angelbob 15y agoAbsolutely. Even if you only know what people are doing/buying in aggregate, that's still very valuable. And you can still correlate between various anonymized streams of data if you know how they correlate -- i.e. 32-year-old male manga fans are more likely to buy Pokemon and Pocky than average. Amazon already gets (and uses, vigorously) a lot of this kind of data from Amazon.com, but I'll bet they're salivating at the idea of getting to cross-compare against all the non-Amazon.com data on the same topics. If they're not, they should be.