I have set my academia account to never email me and have even asked gmail to
send everything there to spam and yet about once a year they sneak into my
inbox and I have to do it all over again.
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:44 PM Tracy Coleman <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
At the very least, we should not speak our thoughts aloud, or keep
our private diaries on our devices. 🙂
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*From:* INDOLOGY <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Ananya
Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <[email protected]
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*Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 3:23 AM
*To:* Claudius Teodorescu <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Cc:* [email protected]
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<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things
This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links
or attachments unless you know the content is safe.
I find there’s a lot of leakage between one’s mobile phone calls,
emails, social media accounts and services like Academia / Research
Gate / Dropbox / Interfolio. It’s only a matter of time before our
thoughts too become accessible, predictable and monetizable. In the
event that as academics we can’t go off the grid entirely, perhaps
it’s better to resign oneself to this invasion of the mind snatchers?
AV.
On Saturday, April 8, 2023, Claudius Teodorescu via INDOLOGY
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hi,
If it is the case that Academia app was installed, one can
notice that it collects name and email address (see [1]), which
is sure enough to correlate with information from Indology
archives, which are public.
Maybe deleting the Academia account will help.
Claudius
[1]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US>
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 11:11, Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I once uploaded an article to Academia and, since then, I
receive notifications every day that 'people' are reading
this article and other papers of mine. Usually, I don't know
these 'people', which could even be a certain
CuneiformComposite (the name of a font), but some are known
to me and appear in my emails.I also receive notifications
that my name has been quoted in such or such article (some
having nothing to do with my work, as very specialized
medical articles by instance), but it is impossible to know
more, without paying. This seems to be a very erratic
process, probably led by a silly robot.
Best,
*Jean Michel DELIRE*
/*Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (ULB)*/
/*Lecturer on *//*Science and civilisation of India -
Sanskrit Texts - IHEB (ULB)*/
/*Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences
(KBR, Bruxelles)*/
/*Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)*/
/*Member of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies*/
Le ven. 7 avr. 2023 à 23:38, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
That's quite suspicious. Perhaps Kaul had a burst of
online business and posted to INDOLOGY and /at the same
time/ uploaded the review to Academia, which triggered
your notification. We can't tell from Academia when
papers are uploaded, but the review has 317 views, which
suggests it was uploaded a while ago, not recently. So
that explanation is probably wrong.
How could Academia possibly be getting information about
your incoming emails? What mechanism can we imagine?
Emails don't deposit cookies, so cross-site cookies
aren't the pathway. If Academia is harvesting from the
INDOLOGY archive, which is technically possible, then
*everyone* would get the Kaul notification or similar
ones, not just you. It's hard to see how this might
work. Without a plausible mechanism, I'm staying with
coincidence.
But I have all my Academia notifications turned off, so
I never get anything from them. If I want to know their
stuff, I look at the website.
Best,
Dominik
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-- Cu stimă,
Claudius Teodorescu
-- Sent on the fly, please excuse typos.
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simple guided meditations.)
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