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Originally Posted by barryem
But not if I have to read a lot of paragraphs like the one above. That's just way over the top!
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Calling it over the top, is to ignore what happens to data, both in the short term, and the long term. It is to ignore that it does not matter what an organizations claimed polices and practices are. If data is tracked an retained by an organization, it will be available elsewhere, regardless of the policies, procedures, and claims of the organization that originally collected the data.
It doesn't matter what type of material one reads:
- Law enforcement looks for "suspicious" material, which can include somebody who has never been in the military reading US Army Field Manuals, or somebody who reads Holocaust denial material, or Fundamental Christian literature;
- Cybergangs use the type of material one reads, to craft malware attacks;
- Organizations use the type of material one reads, to try to con you into buying more of their junk;
- Customs using the material one reads, as a datapoint in allowing one into the country;
- Other groups have equally nefarious uses for the data derived from one's reading habits;
There are two ways to counter such data tracking:
- For it not be gathered by those who do so;
- To flood those who track the data with too much noise;
Those individuals with ebook readers, but no apparent books, are preventing the data from being gathered in the first place;
Those individuals with eBook libraries of 125,000+ books, are flooding the data-trackers with noise. (I have no idea what the lower limit for a personal ebook library is, for it to be mainly noise. I'm using 125,000 purely because that is the number of books, rounded off, in the largest public ebook library in the world.)
Amber