From: "Brian C. Gray" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:12:06 -0500

It is their openly stated policy: https://www.elsevier.com/legal/privacy-matters

Sadly, most websites track you in some way nowadays. It is why the
"private" or "incognito" mode in browsers have become so popular.

Brian


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On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:38 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Shirley Ainsworth <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:38:23 -0500
>
> Recently we have heard on LibLicense about Elsevier demands against
> Sci-Hub, a kickback by Finnish researchers supporting negotiators
> against Elsevier's monopolic behaviour when attempting to negotiate
> big deals, and their  (mis)-information about the OA transfer of
> Sociologie du Travail.
>
> In spite of never (knowingly or recently) having signed in to Science
> Direct I received an email today which begins:
>
> "Hello , here are some personalized article suggestions based on your
> latest ScienceDirect activity".
>
> In the past I have occasionally had to sign in to another of their
> products, Scopus, to set alerts but in spite of always being careful
> to sign out again, it is clear they are tracking my activity, and I
> assume pretty much everyone else's. I may well be living in Cloud
> Cuckoo Land but that makes me very uncomfortable.
>
> Shirley
>
> --
> Shirley Ainsworth
> Bibliotecaria/Librarian
> Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM
> Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
> email [log in to unmask]