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Originally Posted by JoeD
I find it annoying rather than creepy (but no longer surprising) that companies continue to obtain data to provide one service, then use it without consent for other reasons, be it statistics, marketing, advertising... IMO data should be used only for the purpose of providing an exact feature to their customer. If they want to use it for additional purposes, it should be opt-in. If enough people don't opt-in, offer incentives.
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The thing is that we don't really know how any data will be useful at a future point. For instance, suppose an algorithm is developed that can take all of our reading data and recommend another book to us that we will highly enjoy?