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From the Keepa addon settings: > Allow the add-on to gather Amazon prices to improve our price data I thought it was common knowledge that Keepa uses the addon to gather prices. Though with GDPR it probably needs to be more explicitly said.
I can't quite understand this article and its conclusion. The article says: "[The extension] will collect information about the products you look at and the ones you search for". Yet, two sentences later it says "The company behind the extension fails to comply with its legal obligations. The privacy policy is misleading in claiming that no personal data is being collected." So which personal information is exactly i…
Note : I am the author of the article above. The history of all Amazon products you looked at or searched for is personal data, and it can tell a lot about you. Whether it is also personal data in the legal sense is not something I can say for sure. But it definitely has to be properly covered in the privacy policy, for GDPR compliance at the very least.
From the Keepa addon settings: > Allow the add-on to gather Amazon prices to improve our price data I thought it was common knowledge that Keepa uses the addon to gather prices. Though with GDPR it probably needs to be more explicitly said.
Nice, I didn’t find this setting and I explicitly went looking for it. So the settings in the “price history” graph don’t merely apply to the way this graph is shown. Now I need to figure out what this setting is doing. Because I didn’t see any conditions in the code which were tied to this setting.
From the Keepa addon settings: > Allow the add-on to gather Amazon prices to improve our price data I thought it was common knowledge that Keepa uses the addon to gather prices. Though with GDPR it probably needs to be more explicitly said.
Note : I am the author of the article above. Nice, I didn’t find this setting and I explicitly went looking for it. So the settings in the “price history” graph don’t merely apply to the way this graph is shown. Now I need to figure out what this setting is doing. Because I didn’t see any conditions in the code which were tied to this setting.
Scraping data from pages you visit shouldn’t be affected by this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note : I am the author of the article above. The history of all Amazon products you looked at or searched for is personal data, and it can tell a lot about you. Whether it is also personal data in the legal sense is not something I can say for sure. But it definitely has to be properly covered in the privacy policy, for GDPR compliance at the very least.
But it is not personal data that would identify you (PII). If someone was able to determine who I was based solely on my browsing activity on Amazon, then they've already obtained my personal information.
But GDPR doesn’t merely require you to disclosure collection of PII, but rather all data collected. There is a good reason for that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note : I am the author of the article above. The history of all Amazon products you looked at or searched for is personal data, and it can tell a lot about you. Whether it is also personal data in the legal sense is not something I can say for sure. But it definitely has to be properly covered in the privacy policy, for GDPR compliance at the very least.
But it is not personal data that would identify you (PII). If someone was able to determine who I was based solely on my browsing activity on Amazon, then they've already obtained my personal information.
Wow, they've built a distributed Amazon listing scraping system – essentially a botnet. As someone who has done a lot of web scraping and had to route around a lot of blocking (we have business contracts to allow scraping, but they don't stop over-eager sysadmins), this feels like a dream come true. But I'd never actually want to use this for scraping and I'm not sure any informed user would agree to use this.
As well as Honey and Keepa
And not sure if Amazon would agree to this as it essentially threatens the privacy and integrity of their users. Interestingly, Keepa is also an Amazon Affiliate, so they are in a direct business relationship with Amazon.
I don’t. The author even goes out of their way to point out that these requests aren’t generated by the user and so there’s no latent interest information there. I agree that they should cover this behavior in the privacy policy explicitly, but there’s a tone of moral outrage in this piece that seems unearned.