Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by gnicholas on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:27AM
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> 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.
Whenever I check out (non-audio) books on Libby/OverDrive, it always just sends the books to my Kindle Cloud Library. This presumably means OverDrive doesn'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]
It would be interesting to know how these surveillance tactics run up against these privacy laws.
Whenever I check out (non-audio) books on Libby/OverDrive, it always just sends the books to my Kindle Cloud Library. This presumably means OverDrive doesn'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]
It would be interesting to know how these surveillance tactics run up against these privacy laws.
1: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/statelaws