[IP] Amazon's new search service keeps a "history" of your searches

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Kobrin, Steve" <kobrins@wharton.upenn.edu>
Date: September 16, 2004 8:54:06 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: 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

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BTW search for Farber Dave and look at pictures

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,697177-1,00.html

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