Privacy watchdogs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation claim that electronic reader technologies such as Google Book Search, Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes Noble’s Nook threaten consumer privacy. Noting that e-readers collect a lot of information about their users’ reading habits and locations and convey it to the companies that build or sell these technologies, the EFF has created a Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy to shed some light on what information existing e-readers collect and share.
– Consumers mulling whether or not to license book titles through Google Book
Search or purchase an electronic reader such as the Amazon Kindle or Barnes
amp; Noble Nook may want to take the privacy policies of those services and
devices into account before they do so.
Privacy watchdogs at the El…