Google urged to self-police ebookworm tracking

Working for the FBI

May be GBS is on a sub contract from the FBI. Didn't they get upto some sort of monitoring program of library use (that is from the film Seven but I believe the program refered to in the film was based on a real program)

I for one welcome our new efficient privacy intruding reading monitors .... oh maybe not.

tracking because

If you spend too long reading something that worries the government such as titles with the word "bomb" in them, black helicopters can be dispatched to your IP post-haste.

Wait....What?

"unparalleled view of people’s reading and information-seeking habits"

How dare you claim such a thing....Oh wait. They already do this?

Who cares. Im not bothered if Joe Bloggs knows i read "How to kill a mockingbird" or "The sound of laughter by Peter Kay"

@zerofool2005

Ahhh, so as long as Google records it then all is fine? What if you are going for a job and the employer somehow accesses this information, and chooses the other candidate as the employer doesn’t like Peter Kay? I know that is being hypothetical and stretching it a bit, but then again, who would imagine that local councils would abuse anti-terror laws against those pesky Alka-eeee-da litter droppers…?

bad rules

So Google can take orphaned books and make them accessible - I welcome that. But there should be rules for everyone ('level playing field', etc.) to do the same ('level playing field', etc.). Monoculture is bad, diversity is better and would raise less privacy issues.

Welcome the Information Overlords!