{"id":92922,"date":"2009-12-21T20:07:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"9332 at http:\/\/www.eff.org"},"modified":"2009-12-21T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:07:27","slug":"an-e-book-buyers-guide-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92922","title":{"rendered":"An E-Book Buyer&#8217;s Guide to Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we count down to end of 2009, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/185099\/amazon_cheers_record_kindle_sales_for_december.html\">emerging star<\/a> of this year&#8217;s holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-book\">electronic book<\/a> reader (or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_e-book_readers\">e-reader<\/a>). From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0015T963C\/\">Kindle<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/\">Barnes and Noble&#8217;s<\/a> forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/index.asp\">Nook<\/a>, 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. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>As a first step towards addressing these problems, EFF has created a first draft of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/ebook-privacy2.png\">Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/a> to E-Book Privacy. We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Updated Jan 6 2010: We&#8217;ve updated and corrected this guide. Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2010\/01\/updated-and-corrected-e-book-buyers-guide-privacy\">the latest version<\/a> instead.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/ebook-privacy3b.png\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 75%\";>\n*Based on the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/googlebooks\/privacy.html\">Google Books Privacy Policy<\/a>. The policy is subject to change prior to final acceptance of the Google Books Settlement.<br \/>\n**The Nook will not ship until January 2010 and as yet has no publicly available product-specific Terms of Use or Privacy Policy. Results based on the general Barnes and Noble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/help\/cds2.asp?PID=25560&amp;cds2Pid=25556\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/12\/e-book-privacy\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year&#8217;s holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader (or e-reader). From Amazon&#8217;s Kindle to Barnes and Noble&#8217;s forthcoming Nook, e-readers are starting to transform how we buy and read books in the same way mp3s changed how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}