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By Chris Meadows

Found via BoingBoing: the Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted the first draft of an e-book buyer’s guide to privacy.

The guide seems to be fairly minimalist, as it only covers Google Books, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the Sony Reader, and FBReader. There is no mention of other e-book readers, e-book apps for the iPhone, etc.

The gist of it is that Google, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble all have terms of service that allow them to keep track of everything you do. The Sony Reader does not collect information except on its own e-book store, and FBReader is simply “Covered only by the GNU GPL open source license.”

A lot of people, myself included, do not often think about e-books and privacy as being connected. It is good that the EFF is taking a look at terms of service and reminding us how much they are.

 
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