{"id":5531,"date":"2014-10-12T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2014-10-12T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:04:08","slug":"adobe-is-spying-on-users-collecting-data-on-their-ebook-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AdobDR4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5533\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AdobDR4-300x190.png\" alt=\"AdobDR4\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AdobDR4-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AdobDR4.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nate Hoffelder on The Digital Reader blog has broken a story about how <a href=\"http:\/\/the-digital-reader.com\/2014\/10\/06\/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-ebook-libraries\/?utm_source=feedburner#.VDrcBtTF_Ze\">Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries<\/a>. He and <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/10\/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text\/\">Arts Technica<\/a> report that the Adobe&#8217;s Digital Editions 4 send <a href=\"http:\/\/the-digital-reader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ADE-4-datacollector.txt\">data<\/a> home about what you read and how far (what page) you get to. The data is sent in plain text.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffelder used a tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wireshark.org\/\">Wireshark<\/a> to look at what was being sent out from his computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Hoffelder on The Digital Reader blog has broken a story about how Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries. He and Arts Technica report that the Adobe&#8217;s Digital Editions 4 send data home about what you read and how far (what page) you get to. The data is sent in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5535,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}