Amazon says it will handle secured connections, too -- like HTTPS. Because of this feature, Amazon can see your HTTPS content, since its Silk engine builds/draws the page that it sends to the tablet (or PC, shortly). The data which is SSLed is only secured on its way to Amazon, and from Amazon to the user. However, the data is decrypted on Amazon (or otherwise their engine would not be able to build/draw the "secured" internet page).
So Amazon's solution does not provide neither privacy, nor security -- you can not even begin to compare it to ISPs, which never see your secured data decrypted (only you see it raw on your device).
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