Hi,

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Craig Boman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What are your thoughts on the current state of Adobe's Digital Editions'
> privacy? Has Adobe made any changes yet to allow greater privacy or is this
> still an issue? I have been searching the "series of tubes" but I haven't
> found much followup information after the initial lack of privacy
> revelation. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

In late October, Adobe released version 4.0.1 of ADE in response to
the privacy critiques.

That new version of ADE now uses HTTPS, rather than plain HTTP, to
encrypt transmissions to Adobe's log collecting server.  The JSON
payload with the reading progress information is also itself now
encrypted.

Adobe also issued a new privacy policy for ADE
(https://www.adobe.com/privacy/ade.html) that enumerates the specific
data elements that they claim they are collecting.

To summarize: ADE is at least no longer transmitting reading
information in the clear for anybody to intercept, but they are still
collecting some for DRM ebooks.

Here are some links (full disclosure: including to a couple blog posts
of mine) with more details:

* http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/23/adobe-updates-digital-edition-stops-sharing-user-info-internet/
* http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/11/reading-privacy-enables-reader-sharing.html
* http://galencharlton.com/blog/2014/10/testing-adobe-digital-editions-4-0-1/
* http://galencharlton.com/blog/2014/10/testing-adobe-digital-editions-4-0-1-round-2/

Regards,

Galen
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