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E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance

123 点作者 the-mitr超过 1 年前

16 条评论

medler超过 1 年前
Reading this made me grateful that there are still ways to avoid all this surveillance. For example,—and this is just the tip of the iceberg—reading Standard Ebooks on a privacy-respecting ebook reader.
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Springtime超过 1 年前
<i>&gt; Many students are required to use Elsevier’s digital books and learning products in order to complete coursework... By default, Elsevier surveils every page a student visits on the internet—whether it’s related to their education or a google search for nearby abortion clinics. Then... sell[s] this information to data brokers.</i><p>Am I missing something where it goes from reading Elsevier&#x27;s books and using their site to making the leap to internet-wide surveillance?<p>From skimming through the SPARC report they cite it seems various findings are based on privacy policy language, one of which states that &#x27;browsing history&#x27;, &#x27;search history&#x27; and &#x27;interactions with our and other websites&#x27; may be collected, though this reads like it may just involve their own sites&#x27; analytics with only the latter involving other sites (which could be just outlinks but is unclear).<p>While the rest of the report seems to just cover some overviews of their own cookies and open-ended concerns about third-party scripts (which include general CDNs and their own analytics hosted by third-parties).
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StanislavPetrov超过 1 年前
And they wonder why we download books from Z-library with a VPN instead of the, &quot;legitimate&quot; option. It is very similar to using ad blockers. If &quot;legitimate&quot; businesses refuse to let me view and pay for their products without being tracked, loaded with malware and&#x2F;or having my data sold to third parties, then as far as I&#x27;m concerned they have no grounds to complain when I go another route.
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ausaus超过 1 年前
I read purchased ebooks with DRM stripped in Calibre on a jailbroken Kindle with KOreader.
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gnicholas超过 1 年前
&gt; <i>Without laws to stop them, it’s reasonable to expect that popular library apps like Hoopla and Libby are hiding similar behavior behind legal smokescreens.</i><p>Whenever I check out (non-audio) books on Libby&#x2F;OverDrive, it always just sends the books to my Kindle Cloud Library. This presumably means OverDrive doesn&#x27;t know what passages I actually read, or for how long. And the mere fact of my borrowing seems to be protected by state law (many states, including CA, protect this information). [1]<p>It would be interesting to know how these surveillance tactics run up against these privacy laws.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ala.org&#x2F;advocacy&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;statelaws" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ala.org&#x2F;advocacy&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;statelaws</a>
cratermoon超过 1 年前
This is mostly about Amazon Kindle, but it also mentions Hoopla, an e-reader app. Presumably this applies to things like Overdrive as well. I&#x27;m satisfied with my Kobo, epubs and Calibre.
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southernplaces7超过 1 年前
Stripping DRM, making &quot;your&quot; books really your own books, and then transferring, storing and reading them however you damn well please are the sequence of simple solutions to the corporate&#x2F;legal crap that&#x27;s so common these days and to the parasitic garbage described in the article.<p>Also, just resorting to plain pirate copy torrenting and download, because if the combination of legal players who make getting your own DIGITAL copy of book so bloody complicated and restricted want to take that route, they deserve a few leaks in revenue.
legitster超过 1 年前
&gt; By default, Elsevier surveils every page a student visits on the internet—whether it’s related to their education or a google search for nearby abortion clinics.<p>How is this even possible? The article has nothing to back this up.<p>And it&#x27;s not even an e-book! Elsevier uses a custom JavaScript &quot;reader&quot;. So it&#x27;s just a web page. But I think someone read their privacy policy and got confused about what they are capable of.
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masterfooo超过 1 年前
That is exactly why I have thousands of offline books in my offline library and I use a no internet&#x2F;wifi Android ebook reader to read them.
verisimi超过 1 年前
&gt; E-books are becoming told off corporate surveillance<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s a small point, but the title is wrong imo. There&#x27;s no <i>becoming</i> about it, this was a major point all along, from inception. Just like mobiles are spying devices (updated so that batteries are non removable now), like smart meters, like electric cars, etc.<p>Some of us have known and talked about the level of spouting being baked into hardware for a long time. This sort of intrusion was telegraphed, but missed by most technology fans, who have misplaced their faith with government and corporations.
nikolayasdf123超过 1 年前
get printed books (or pdfs), distill your own water, grow your own food (if you can)
BramLovesYams超过 1 年前
I only buy physical books. Not trying to be sarcastic here, but I have yet to find an E-Reader that gives me the same relaxing feeling that looking at ink on paper does at the end of the day. For the the library-in-one device convenience hasn&#x27;t outweighed the disconnected simplicity of reading a book.<p>After spending a work day staring at a screen I have zero interest in looking at at yet another display.
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phendrenad2超过 1 年前
Pretty sure GDPR&#x2F;CCPA prohibits them from actually making use of this data. But simply collecting data for temporary use is enough to get the expert journalists another day&#x27;s worth of copy.
pfix超过 1 年前
Is this a concern to EU citizens? Seems to be one of the reasons the GDPR exits.
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Yodel0914超过 1 年前
This may well be a serious issue, but it&#x27;s hard to tell because this article is atrociously written.
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dylan604超过 1 年前
at this point, any app, device, service, website that does not actively promote the fact that they <i>do not</i> harvest data, track, spy, etc should just automatically be assumed that they are. The money to be made is too good. The requirements to do it are too easy. The usability impact on the user is negligible if it&#x27;s even measureable to non-existent.<p>It&#x27;s pretty much like this war has been lost, but nobody wants to admit it or even admit it existed.
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