Adobe is the latest company to admit they’re spying “collecting information from the user” via one of their products: Adobe Digital Editions 4, the company’s latest version of the widely popular ebook platform.  

Adobe is said to be gathering extensive data about its users’ ebook reading habits including how long the book has been read for, what percentage of the book has been read and more. All the data including the book’s title, publisher and metadata is being sent through to Adobe’s servers in non-encrypted format. What’s even creepier is that Adobe also seems to be tracking individual users’ computers by gathering metadata from all ebooks stored on a hard drive and uploading the data onto Adobe’s servers.