Amazon’snew web browserlets Amazon ’s cloud host do the heavy web processing so the Kindle Fire does n’t have to . Now some legislators are concerned about the personal information Amazon will be able to collect in the cognitive operation .
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Amazon Silk is very intelligently contrive — not only does it lower the price of the Kindle Fire by minimise its computer hardware requirements , it also bucket along up Sir Frederick Handley Page load times , and even learns your behavior and pre - loads the pages you visit the most when you ’re connected to the net . It sound fantastic .
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are involve answers about what Amazon will be doing with the substance abuser datum passing through its servers — even if it is in the name of improve user experience on the Kindle FIre . In a letter to Jeff Bezos , Representative Ed Markey from Massachusetts asks a set of pretty fair questions about what he calls “ Big internet browser . ” Is Amazon collecting data ? What do they intend to do with all that data ? How will Amazon inform client it is collecting datum ? Do customers have a choice ? These are all questions that customer deserve very clear and denotative reply to .
It ’s not needs a give , but it ’s almost sealed that Amazon will be collecting selective information about your behavior while you are on their servers if it intends to pre - load your webpages — not to mention that Amazon has always been in the stage business of personalizing the ware it demonstrate you based on what you watch and what you purchase while on Amazon servers . It ’s sane to enquire if your pasture history will then become the basis of good word like these or if Amazon will be selling the data . Ars Technicareportsthat the data point will be anonymized and bundled before it ’s sent to Amazon , but as we ’ve learn in the past times , users and companies often have a very dissimilar savvy of what “ anonymized ” means . One thing we do bed , is that exploiter will be able to prefer out of using Amazon ’s cloud servers altogether . Still , Amazon Silk will default to split browse because without it , well , web browsing on the Kindle might suck . [ Ars Technica ]
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