While Mawson and some observers might not be all that outraged by the recent scandal with Adobe, many librarians are.
“Some librarians are completely outraged by the situation since it violates the privacy of library patrons as well as privacy laws in some places,” Library Journal reports.
The author of that piece, however, states that they “can’t seem to get that outraged, because the goal of absolute privacy when doing things online, especially things that involve corporations, just isn’t an attainable goal.”
While absolute privacy might be out of reach at this point when doing anything online, there are many practical and easy steps you can take to preserve your privacy if you wish to.
Library Journal highlights one of the most fundamental problems in today’s digital world: the terms of service box. Most people click “accept” without ever reading any of its contents.
“Apple or Amazon or Adobe could be laying claim to everyone’s first-born child in those terms of service and nobody would bother to read,” Library Journal notes.