[Reader-list] downloads and privacy

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Following from Rana's post on the marketing-driven profile farming that 
goes on in the internet.

How long before a new form of identity politics raises its head. "nike 
buyers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your reeboks". 
Perhaps this is happening already. Through consumer loyalty programmes and 
online consumer clubs and affinity groups based on the kind of cliks that 
you make online.

And of course, there could be epassports and e-citizneship schemes, based 
on online loyalty and participation in e-governance programmes, that are 
based (positively) on how much of your online time you spend on patriotic 
websites and how much time (negatively) you spend on anti national and 
prurient sites?

;)

Shuddha


Shuddhabrata Sengupta
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