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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
So.
Your cell phone tracks every tower you contact. Your GPS in your cell phone tracks your movements. Facebook Places and Foursquare know where you are.
Your browser plants cookies that it uses to track your activity. Your email is as secure as a postcard. Your credit card company knows every CC purchase, your bank knows your debit transactions, checks, and ATM locations. Your phone company keeps records of every call you make and receive.
They aren't getting all that much more data on you with ebooks than they did when you bought books online, or used a rewards card. Everyone is already mining the daylights out of that data, and have for years.
At this point, if you really don't want anyone to track your activities, I recommend you throw out your computer, lose your cell phone, cancel your land line, ditch your ATM card, chop up your credit cards, and deal only in cash.
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Tip of my hat to you.
Thing is, won't people still need their Costco memberships to buy their pallets of tinfoil? Costco probably tracks their purchases, too.