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Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb
A friend of mine's mother seriously believes that government and big business are spying on everyone. No amount of logic can convince her that they do not have the time/money/inclination to watch every ordinary citizen. If he thinks like this then perhaps he will be more comfortable knowing that he is in control of the wifi.
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When Jill Dando was killed, the person who was originally convicted of doing it was questioned because he searched Google for information on her a few days earlier. Everything you do online is monitored and stored away for future use by both your ISP and most of the websites you go to. Most of it is just used to target advertising at you, but your government will also have access to that data. But unless they were already watching you for some reason, they would probabyl never look at it.
With Amazon and other commercial sites there is a lot to be gained from watching what people do, and I doubt Amazon would pass up on such an opportunity. If they know what books you read and how long you take to read them, they will know precisely when to present you with a list of books you might be interested in. They could even have samples of those books sent to your Kindle automatically on the day they expect you to finish the book you are reading.