Amazon Fire Tablet sparks privacy concern.

The brand new Amazon Fire Tablet is an underpowered device that relies heavily on the cloud for services.

One of these is the tablet browser called Silk which monitors your personal information.


We talked about the tablet last week and a hidden agenda attached to the low sale cost of the device.

This brand new browser may be that overlooked trap Amazon is looking to use on consumers.

[Amazon] will be learning about us; our ongoing web activity must be accumulated and analyzed to give Silk the ability to anticipate our next clicks and prepare to serve pages that we click on regularly as well as pages that they think we’re going to click on shortly.

Basically Amazon is masking the fact that they can collect personal information through a means of faster loading times on the tablet. This collected information can be used for targetted advertising purposes and mapping a consumer interest profile which can be sold to marketting companies.

Every website we visit, every button that we click, every form that we fill out on an Amazon Fire will be logged. By becoming the ultimate middleman, Amazon and Silk are going to improve the speeds at which we browse, but at what cost?

Reported by Techi.