"It has become commonplace to say that we have entered the age of
information. The words conjure up images of a reader's paradise ~ an
era of limitless access to information resources and unlimited
interpersonal communication. In truth, however, the new information
age is turning out to be as much an age of information about readers
as an age of information for readers. The same technologies that have
made vast amounts of information accessible in digital form are
enabling information providers to amass an unprecedented wealth of
data about who their customers are and what they like to read. In the
new age of digitally transmitted information, the simple, formerly
anonymous acts of reading, listening, and viewing ~ scanning an
advertisement or a short news item, browsing through an online novel
or a collection of video clips ~ can be made to speak volumes,
including, quite possibly, information that the reader would prefer
not to share. This Article focuses specifically on digital monitoring
of individual reading habits for purposes of so-called "copyright
management" in cyberspace, and evaluates the import of this
monitoring for traditional notions of freedom of thought and
expression."
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