[Infowarrior] - EFF: E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy

[Richard Forno]

An E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy Commentary by Ed Bayley
As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year's  
holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader  
(or e-reader). From Amazon's Kindle to Barnes and Noble's forthcoming  
Nook, e-readers are starting to transform how we buy and read books in  
the same way mp3s changed how we buy and listen to music.

Unfortunately, e-reader technology also presents significant new  
threats to reader privacy. E-readers possess the ability to report  
back substantial information about their users' reading habits and  
locations to the corporations that sell them. And yet none of the  
major e-reader manufacturers have explained to consumers in clear  
unequivocal language what data is being collected about them and why.

As a first step towards addressing these problems, EFF has created a  
first draft of our Buyer's Guide to E-Book Privacy. We've examined the  
privacy policies for the major e-readers on the market to determine  
what information they reserve the right to collect and share.

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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/e-book-privacy