This sounds like an implementation of The Right to Read: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253671.253726 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253671.253726 https://www

This sounds like an implementation of The Right to Read: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253671.253726 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253671.253726 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1981/1981-h/1981-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1981/1981-h/1981-h.htm That essay seemed unrealistic and dystopic when it was originally written. Now it seems like the typical T&C of every e-reader. If facial recognition was anything other than a PhD type project at that time, that would have prevented the main plot of the essay.