In a scene right out of George Orwell's book 1984, Amazon secretly took books back from customers it sold electronically.
Amazon.com has a product called the Kindle which is an electronic book. You go online, buy a book, and download it. The cool thing is you can take it with you and read anywhere, but it is small, and kinda geeky.
The other day Amazon went onto their customer's personal Kindles and removed the books they bought without their knowledge. They then let them know what they had done, and that they had been credited for the book.
Apparently Amazon did not have the rights to sell a few books including 1984 and Animal Farm, so they had to do something. Well, they did. They went onto each person's computer, removed the books, and then let them know.
It has been called an "Orwellian moment" by many. If you are not familiar with 1984 it is a book about how Big Brother takes over, and how they control everything. The book was written in 1948, and the author transposed the numbers to come up with the future, 1984. It is amazing how many things have come to pass from that book.
There is now a lawsuit by a student who was using the book to write a report on 1984, and the Kindle lets you keep notes attached to a book. When the deleted the book from his Kindle, guess what? Yup, the notes went by-by also. The cool thing is he is suing Amazon, and he and the attorney are not doing it for money but to get them to stop this practice.
I think the question here is, what rights does a company have to get into a device such as a computer or electronic book reader, and actually access your information or remove anything. It is like Amazon breaking into my house and taking back a book I bought, and leaving a note on the table. Sure seems like an invasion of privacy.
I am sure this is going to be debated much in the future.
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