{"id":4136,"date":"2009-12-22T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:40:38","slug":"ebook-privacy-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"eBook Privacy Addressed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> gave us this fantastic <strong><a title=\"eBooks and Privacy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/12\/e-book-privacy\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to <strong><em>An eBook Buyer&#8217;s Guide to Privacy<\/em><\/strong> by Ed Bayley at the\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"eBooks and Privacy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/12\/e-book-privacy\" target=\"_self\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a quote from the article to capture your interest: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is something we knew that some\u00c2\u00a0eReader manufacturers could do, but never thought they would. On the surface, we&#8217;re worried about junk mail and directed advertising clogging up our inboxes. But what else can they do with the personal information they collect from your eBook reader?<\/p>\n<p>Read the article. Bonus too! There&#8217;s a chart that separates the secure eBook Readers from the known offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen gave us this fantastic link to An eBook Buyer&#8217;s Guide to Privacy by Ed Bayley at the\u00c2\u00a0Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here&#8217;s a quote from the article to capture your interest: &#8220;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4136\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}