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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by hyperion2010 on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:49PM (#7416695)
Wow. Do they have any idea why librarians refuse to keep records of who check out what book? This is a billion times worse.
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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by poulson on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:12PM (#7416888)
Is there any legal protection for users' reading lists in libraries? Because it would be wonderful if someone could set up a legal online library which would extend such protections onto the internet.
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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by dictum on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:59PM (#7417246)
You bring a point I hadn't thought of yet: aside from illegal downloading, you can't buy an ebook anonymously.
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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by schoen on Monday March 17, 2014 @05:24PM (#7418201)
See also Julie Cohen's 1996 paper on this problem:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=17990

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