I work to mitigate what info is scrapable about me (f'rinstance, my legal name is really really hard to track down--in part because I share it with a Nobel prize nominee and a famous doctor in New York), but I don't fret over it.
I'm sympathetic to fans who *do* have to worry about IRL consequences, but no amount of hand-wringing over this-or-that data site is going to fix that problem. It's part of the larger issue of doxxing--and if the courts are still waffling over whether it's okay to publish someone's address and phone number on twitter or tumblr, they're not going to blink at someone's pseud being linked to their nom de plume, whether or not that's their legal name, on a book site.
There are way too many people who think sites have privacy agreements because they keep user data private, rather than having 5000 words of "this is how we're going to share your data around, and if you don't agree with that, don't sign up."
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branchandroot
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Date: 2014-12-17 04:05 am (UTC)I'm sympathetic to fans who *do* have to worry about IRL consequences, but no amount of hand-wringing over this-or-that data site is going to fix that problem. It's part of the larger issue of doxxing--and if the courts are still waffling over whether it's okay to publish someone's address and phone number on twitter or tumblr, they're not going to blink at someone's pseud being linked to their nom de plume, whether or not that's their legal name, on a book site.
There are way too many people who think sites have privacy agreements because they keep user data private, rather than having 5000 words of "this is how we're going to share your data around, and if you don't agree with that, don't sign up."