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Originally Posted by conan50
Do they want to know everything about you? Yes. So they can sell. But not to put you in jail which is why government spying is so bad.
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What prevents the company from selling your data to the government?
More pointedly, what triggers will be generated, from analyzing what you read, and how much of that is read? And what will become of that data, down the line?
Going back to the data being sold, what happens when you're looking for a job, and the background report notes that two months ago you read several books on Holocaust Denial, and last month you read
Anarchist Cook Book,
White Man's Bible,
The Turner Diaries, and
The Lord is a Mighty Fortress, so HR decides not to hire you, because you are "obviously" a racist, and as such, a potential liability for the company.
(FWIW, It's a toss up between those four books, and the books that Snooki wrote, as to which has the higher literary merit.)
Or let's say you are applying to graduate school, and the review committee looks at the research papers and books you've read, and notes that there is a lot of material about "Creation Science", and/or "Intelligent Design". What is going to be happen to your chance of being accepted into the biology program?
Maybe the ISIS scenario is more appropriate. You read a Bible on your ebook reader, and now you're going to be executed, because reading the Bible is a mandatory death sentence.
Furthermore, it isn't a question of "
if", but rather
how soon, and
how much that Google/Amazon/etc scoops up about users, is freely available to all and sundry, thanks to a data breach.
This is why, for maximum security --- both short term and long term --- you want zero data tracking, and zero data retention.