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title: Finding subversives using Amazon wishlists
date: "2006-01-11T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 432
description: I found this demonstration of how public Amazon wishlists can be mined to identify individuals interested in subversive literature, highlighting the significant privacy risks inherent in publicly accessible consumer data.
keywords: [amazon wishlists, data mining, privacy, banned books, surveillance, metadata]
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[Finding subversives using Amazon wishlists](http://www.applefritter.com/bannedbooks).