Welcome to Hotel Elsevier

Elsevier appears to be collecting and monetizing our personal data, sometimes without writers' consent. Data can be used to “extrapolate core working hours, vacation times, and other patterns of a person’s life.” Over 20,000 researchers now refuse to publish, review, or edit for Elsevier. There’s a help ticket process that could result in Elsevier deleting some of your data. Or as Eiko Fried puts it, “Welcome to Hotel Elsevier