Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by shmel on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:34AM (#24271721)

Are you genuinely surprised at this point? Pretty much all big tech companies were caught outright lying about user data collection. Why would you assume by default they don't try to get as much as possible? They are all based on ML, of course they do.

A year or two ago Amazon was swearing that humans don't listen to Alexa conversations until we learned they actually do. IIRC Amazon tried to backpedal: "of course they do, it is their job, we meant humans don't listen _for fun_".

At this point just assume the internet connectivity as such a warning.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by charles_f on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:27AM (#24272316)

> Pretty much all big tech companies were caught outright lying about user data collection.

You can strip the big here.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by neiman on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:49AM (#24271888)

Of course I'm not surprised, but I refuse to accept this as normal.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:04AM (#24272056)

But your refusal doesn’t change the reality.

Kinda like refusing to believe that climate change is real does not change the reality.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by neiman on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:16AM (#24272208)

What? I didn't say I don't recognize the reality. I said I don't accept it as normal, meaning I work trying to change it.

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