Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by hedora on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:57AM
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> But it would be worse if they were also selling off your private reading history.
Google makes a similar argument, but I am not convinced. They still give information to abusive governments, and their in-house infrastructure for monetizing your data is state of the art.
Plus, data breaches are basically inevitable. Even if they weren’t, some percentage of FAANG will eventually have a few down quarters in a row and sell access to the data to the highest bidder, or be acquired by an oligarch.
Google makes a similar argument, but I am not convinced. They still give information to abusive governments, and their in-house infrastructure for monetizing your data is state of the art.
Plus, data breaches are basically inevitable. Even if they weren’t, some percentage of FAANG will eventually have a few down quarters in a row and sell access to the data to the highest bidder, or be acquired by an oligarch.