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Another request I suddenly worry about is "what books has this person purchased or read on their kindle"

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Who has read books critical of the Trump Regime in the past x months?

Ironically there are protections for this, and much of what we call "Hacker Culture" is built around the ideas; but they only apply to librarians and libraries in the US; https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill

Many of those protections are meaningless if you ignore the law, as this administration is quite willing to do.

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