Jordan Lopez

Can We Read What We Want?

Adobe Tracking Reading Habits

• User ID• Finding out who

you are • Device ID• For DRM control

• Certified App ID• More DRM control

• Device IP Address• Your location

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Collects your data, then sends it insecurely.There has been a call for this insecure information

to become secure.

From Em Adespoton on Slashdot:

“Think about it like this: which is worse: the guy next door taking pictures through your windows night and day, or the guy next door taking pictures through your windows night and day and posting them all online? They’re both bad, but the second is much worse.”

• Ju ly 2009 , George Orwel l ’ s “1984” and “Animal Farm” were remote ly de le ted f rom customers ’ d ig i ta l dev ices .

• Notes and Annotat ions were a l so unusable . • The r ights ho lder o f these books had to not i fy Amazon

that they were i l l ega l cop ies . • Amazon acknowledges the de le t ions were a mis take .

“We are changing our sys tems so that in the future we wi l l not remove books f rom customer ’s dev ices in these c i rcumstances .”

- -Drew Herdener, spokesman for Amazon

Amazon’s Kindle DevicesThe Seizure of Your Digitally Purchased Content

Amazon’s Infringement of Rights

The actions of Amazon concerning the ebook deletion break their terms of service:

“Amazon Grants customers the right to keep a “permanent copy of the applicable digital content.””

“They didn’t just take a book back, they stole my work.”--Justin Gawronski

On September 4th 2009, Amazon offered to restore the deleted books.

Do You Have Privacy?

You have none when it comes to commercial ebook readers and software.

Amazon and Adobe can effectively censor

what you read by knowing every page that is read and they apparently reserve the right to destroy your digital library.

Sources

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/10/07/1725232/adobe-spies-on-users-ebook-libraries/insightful-comments#comments

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=1&

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Remote_content_removal

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/23/blacklisted/