Actually, the text above is not exactly analogous to the terms on which we bargain with every mouse click. To really polish the analogy, I'd have to ask this magazine to hide that text in the margin of one of the back pages. And I'd have to end it with This agreement is subject to change at any time. What we agree to participate in on the Internet isn't a negotiated trade; it's a smorgasbord, and intimate facts of your life (your location, your interests, your friends) are the buffet.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe Curious Case of Internet Privacy - Technology Review - 0 views
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By reading this agreement, you give Technology Review and its partners the unlimited right to intercept and examine your reading choices from this day forward, to sell the insights gleaned thereby, and to retain that information in perpetuity and supply it without limitation to any third party.
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Facebook then responds to the inevitable public outcry by restoring something that's like the old system, except slightly less private.
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I'm Being Followed: How Google-and 104 Other Companies-Are Tracking Me on the Web - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic - 0 views
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The creepy feeling is a sign to pay attention to a possibly harmful phenomenon. But we can't sort our feelings into categories -- dangerous or harmless -- because we don't actually know what's going to happen with all the data that's being collected.
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there are key unresolved issues about how we relate to our digital selves and the machines through which they are expressed.
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At the heart of the problem is that we increasingly live two lives: a physical one in which your name, social security number, passport number, and driver's license are your main identity markers, and one digital, in which you have dozens of identity markers, which are known to you and me as cookies.
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