Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 3, 2014 @06:03AM from the less-spying-same-great-taste dept.

itwbennett writes Tests on the latest version of Adobe System's e-reader software shows the company is now collecting less data following a privacy-related dustup last month, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Adobe was criticized in early October after it was discovered Digital Editions collected metadata about e-books on a device, even if the e-books did not have DRM. Those logs were also sent to Adobe in plain text. Digital Editions version 4.0.1 appears to only collect data on e-books that have DRM (Digital Rights Management), writes Cooper Quintin, a staff technologist with the EFF.

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Re:Stop using Adobe Reader by Minwee · 2014-11-03 06:29 · Score: 3, Informative

You can stop hitting yourself in the face with a hammer too.
If you read carefully, Adobe has been collecting data through Adobe Digital Editions, which has about five letters in common with Adobe reader.
If you have evidence of a built-in epub reader in Chrome and Firefox, feel free to share it with the rest of the class.