Amazon Spying On Your Ebook Highlighting
Ignoring the sensationalist headline from TechDirt, the fact that Amazon is collecting user generated data on their devices isn’t all that shocking. There are a few technical reasons why they would do this, the simplest of which is the most innocent: if you lose your device and have to restore all of your books, your notes and highlights get restored at the same time.
Of course, the “popular highlights” feature dashes my hopes for the innocent explanation. Can someone dig through the Terms of Service to reveal what else Amazon does with the data you create on your device?
