Amazon is introducing a new mobile web browser along with its new Kindle Fire, Silk. However, its more than the "hum drum" mobile browser that we have come accustomed to. What it does is, it takes your request for pages and hands it off to Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Cloud) server which does all of the computing power for the website request. It was compared by the Amazon developer team as a high speed multi-core computer rendering the site and regurgitating back to the user. So, what does this mean to the end user? well Amazon wants you to think that it provides a speedier browsing experience, which it will do, but at what cost? Privacy. By sending internet queries to the Amazon server, Amazon becomes, a some what, Internet Service Provider (ISP). Basically, the e-retailer giant will see everything you browse, and potentially save that information for an undetermined amount of time. Right now, Amazon has stated that it would only be for 30 days, but that could change (read this article on this). Thankfully, the user can opt out of this service and browse with out the help EC2, which is a relief for the people that are a bit weary of their information. Nevertheless, we are living in an ever growing internet world, so c'mon, how long will privacy even matter?
Thanks, Computerworld.com
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