Amazon truck tracking6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Aggregated data is used to show which parts of books have most frequently been highlighted, as Kindle customers can see while reading. The highlights are logged to sync reading progress and actions across devices, she said. Who is this information shared with, what is done with it, and how can it affect my privacy – and the future of the reading experience itself?Īmazon says it does not share what individual customers have highlighted with publishers or anyone else, a spokeswoman said. But the extensive tracking of my reading habits – my most beloved and previously offline hobby – was jarring. I already understood Amazon tracks our purchases on its site, our activity across the web, our voice commands, our grocery shopping and our locations. Other habits tracked included the times I copied excerpts from books into my iPhone’s clipboard and how often I looked up definitions of words in Kindle’s attached dictionary. On 27 August 2018, I changed the color of a highlighted portion of that same book. On I highlighted an excerpt from the third installment of the diary of Anaïs Nin, the data shows, and on 23 August 2018 at 11.25 pm, I highlighted an excerpt from Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath. And Amazon knows more than just what books I’ve read and when – it also knows which parts of them I liked the most. ![]()
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