Amazon Fire HD Tablets

If you want a cheap tablet that isn’t a piece of junk, Amazon has the best game in town. You can pick up some of their offerings for well under $100, and while they won’t compete with the versatility of an iPad, they’re perfect for simple tasks like browsing the web and reading eBooks.

According to Mozilla, they’re also a convenient way to give Amazon your data. The organization gave the company’s tablets a thumbs down for privacy practices.

Cameras: Yes

Microphones: Yes

Location tracking: Yes

What data it collects: Name, address, phone numbers, IP address, age, gender, location, audio and video recordings, contacts, purchase history, Alexa search requests, the TV shows you watch, details about the music and podcasts you listen to, smart home device usage

Can you delete the data: Mozilla says it’s not clear whether you can delete the data in all locations.

How the company uses the data: Advertising, sharing data with third parties, combining information with data from third parties, improving Alexa

Mozilla says:

“Trying to read through Amazon’s crazy network of privacy policies, privacy FAQs, privacy statements, privacy notices, and privacy documentation for their vast empire is a nightmare. There are so many documents that link to other documents that link back even more documents that understanding and making sense of Amazon’s actual privacy practices feels almost impossible. We wonder if this is by design, to confuse us all so we just give up? Or, if maybe even Amazon’s own employees possibly don’t know and understand the vast network of privacy policies and documentation they have living all over the place?”

Mozilla’s review:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/amazon-fire-hd-tablets/