Congress, wary of Amazon’s Silk browser, demands answers on privacy.
Congress is trying to wrap its collective head around Amazon’s new Silk Web browser.
At a privacy hearing yesterday, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) expressed outrage at the way Silk’s “split” design can funnel all user browsing data through Amazon’s backend servers.
… “Consumers may buy the new Kindle Fire to read ‘1984,’ but they may not realize that the tablet’s ‘Big Browser’ may be watching their every keystroke when they are online,”
