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We talked about whether the browser 'Silk' Amazon Kindle Fire is a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen, by the way apparently is going to modify the contents of the cache and its own servers AWS. It seems that people are realizing some other potential issues with it too. Keith Dawson points us to a couple of interesting stories to analyze the implications of data mining. The first, Chris Espinosa, summarizes the problem succinctly:

So there's that. Of course, there are a few caveats here. In theory, your ISP could have much of the same info -- though you can get around it with encryption. Furthermore, your ISP isn't caching everything, so there are some limitations there. Of course, on the flip side, the Silk browser is only on the Kindle Fire, meaning Amazon is only getting such data based on what people surf over that particular tablet device and its 7-inch screen. It might be interesting to see some data here, but I'd bet the sort of browsing done on such a device is not representative of how people surf the wider web.

Of course, things could get interesting if Amazon decides to enter the browser war in a bigger ... as for the release of the Silk as a desktop browser. That theory was raised in another article highlighted by Dawson, this one by Joe Brockmeier, which analyzes the implications of the Silk browser in a variety of fronts. He is the first person I've seen display the idea of ??entering the Amazon wars largest desktop browser:

However, it seems likely that Amazon will place great emphasis on the silk just for the fire? I do not think that's likely. Amazon has published several works of the engineers of the Silk Road, and on the go is mentioned, is not exclusive. I have a strong suspicion that Amazon will be releasing a desktop browser Silk over time. Probably not in the near future - Amazon needs to make sure that your infrastructure can handle the onslaught of all Kindle users before trying to scale to any number of desktop users.

I remember when people said that the Microsoft browser wars were over and won? Yes Anyway, the article also notes that Amazon Brockmeier not only have this information added, but in theory it can bind specifically to the information holder's account Amazon:

Perhaps it's not just copyright lawsuits that Amazon will be facing with Silk.

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