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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
I'm wondering about the potential for the ADE info to be phoned home as per the recent thread in the News section.
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I've been following that thread as well. So far that seems to need running ADE 4 on your computer. From what I've read around the Net, it begins to seem that running any version of ADE newer than ADE 2 is "Not A Good Idea".
From what I've read and seen with ADE 4 running on a virtual machine, it would appear that it wants to send home information on ebooks in your Adobe library on your local machine and, for Kobo ereaders, information on ebooks in the internal storage that have been opened so they have entries in the Digital Editions/Manifest directory if your Kobo ereader is connected when ADE 4 is running.
The interesting point for me is that
- I use ADE only for borrowing library books
- The restrictions on giving out information on library borrowing habits are quite strict. For a library in BC, the following applies:
Libraries should not keep a history of what materials a patron has borrowed, except where the individual consents. Once an item has been safely returned, reference to it should be removed from the patron’s record.
BTW, the definition of consent as used above is referred to as "informed consent" whatever that may mean to a lawyer.