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Amazon's new search service keeps a "history" of your searches
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:26:59 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Kobrin, Steve" <kobrins () wharton upenn edu> Date: September 16, 2004 8:54:06 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: RE: [IP] Amazon's new search service keeps a "history" of your searches
The interesting thing about A9 is that you can search for references to yourself or anyone else in what appears to many or most of the books Amazon stocks. However, I thought that you meant something else. It should be obvious that Amazon not only has a record of every book you have ever bought from them, but every book you have ever looked at on their site. That is the digital equivalent of a bookstore recording every book you glance at one their shelves and has enormous privacy implications, especially given Amazon's notice of a year or so ago that their databases are a business asset that could be sold with the business or a part of it. If anyone is concerned about the provisions of the Patriot Act requiring libraries to report what is borrowed by whom, think of what could be gleaned from Amazon's records. Simply looking at the wrong book for an instant could come back to haunt you with Mr. Aschroft and Company. Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-ip () v2 listbox com [mailto:owner-ip () v2 listbox com] On Behalf Of David Farber Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:16 PM To: Ip Subject: [IP] Amazon's new search service keeps a "history" of your searches BTW search for Farber Dave and look at pictures http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,697177-1,00.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as KobrinS () wharton upenn edu To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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