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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Unavoidable fact of modern life.
(shrugg)
Everything you do, every service you use, tracks you.
Everything goes on your permanent record. Just ask Mr Finch's Machine.  |
I love that show!
I've had to trade off a large amount of anonymity just because of work I've been involved in, and things I've chosen to do. I do have my boundaries, of course, but I have to be honest with myself about how much of my life is actually private. But then, I'm a little odd in this regard. What I am willing and not willing to share with the world is probably different than most people. I also compartmentalize - I rarely share all of me with any one person. While this may seem unrelated to the topic, it shapes my feelings about things like reading data.
Also - WHY someone wants to know something is often more important to me than WHAT they want to know, and "what they
could do with it" is contrasted with "what they are
likely to do with it". A nosy neighbor is creepier to me than Amazon collecting my reading habits. Statistically, the neighbor is more likely to cause me grief than Amazon.
All that said, I can't remember the last time I turned on the wifi on either of my ereaders because I prefer long battery life, so good luck to them getting any further than purchase data.