Silk filters everything through Amazon’s own cloud-computing servers, a move the company claims will vastly speed up the mobile Web experience – perhaps doubling the speed at which websites load.īut privacy advocates say there may be other consequences. Most Web browsers – like Safari, Explorer and Firefox – connect Internet users directly with websites. The Amazon Silk browser appears to work unlike anything on the market today. What’s been less discussed is the new cloud-based Web browser that’s loaded onto every one of Amazon’s tablets.

That got lots of chatter in tech circles. “If you think that Google AdWords and Facebook are watching you, this service is guaranteed to have a record of everything you do on the Web.”Īmazon, best known for its online marketplace and the Kindle e-reader, unveiled a touch-screen tablet computer on Wednesday called the Kindle Fire. “All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon’s cloud,” he writes on Sophos’ Naked Security blog.

Facebook and Google’s privacy issues are well-known.īut they’re nothing compared with those surrounding Silk, Amazon’s in-house Internet browser for its newly announced tablet computer, says Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at British computer security firm Sophos, a British computer security firm.

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