[INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things

[Claudius Teodorescu]

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

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 11:11, Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> 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 <
> indology at list.indology.info> 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
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