Re: Adobe e-book Reader issue

Wow, this news is upsetting. Thank you for sharing. I expected that Adobe
would collect data on books we are reading with Adobe DE, but not that it
would collect data on everything in my Adobe library, and especially not
that it would collect data on epub books I store elsewhere (e.g., in
Calibre).

That article from Joseph links to this one:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-ebook-libraries/#.VDVhEPldV8H


The sad thing is that Adobe DE is lousy software to begin with. I only use
it when I have to (e.g., library books). Now we learn that it's lousy AND
invasive . . .  great.

Beth

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:23 AM, josephHarris joe9438-/[email protected]
[ebook-community] <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am forwarding this with the original writer's permission.
>
> Joseph Harris
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> ars technica>  Risk Assessment/ Security&  Hacktivism
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> Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain
> text [Updated]
> Digital Editions even tracks which pages you've read. It might break a
> New Jersey Law.
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/
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> ...
> >A review of Adobe's terms of use for DE found no mention of the logging
> feature...
> ...
> >  It's clear from testing that data is sent on more than just the book>
> currently being read—in our test, data was provided from a "scan" of>
> all documents currently in the library. Additionally, it's not clear>
> why all this data is sent regardless of the source of the book—even
> >  EPUB documents that are DRM free get all their data shipped back to
> >  Adobe.
>
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