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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each time a PDF is downloaded. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

Source: https://social.coop/@jonny/107685726645817029 -- Also includes tips for removing this data.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I knew this wasn't far off. As a reminder, the authors are allowed to give you the paper if you ask them for it. Don't need to pay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Back then, when I was still in academia, I actually put every paper I wrote and the corresponding data/code on my academic website for everyone to download. I can't understand why this isn't required for every (publicly funded) researcher!