At best this is a clickbait title. Cleary support team only wants to help you but not compromising your own PII details.
Amazon suggests user delete tweet showing how much data they collect
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#22I question the appropriateness of @AmazonHelp jumping into a thread that it was not tagged in and that is not even asking for help with anything.
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#23Title is misleading. They didn't really suggest to delete the tweet because of the fact it shows their data collection, but because it contains some PII like the user's address. I don't want to side with Amazon on this, but I genuinely believe there is nothing strange here: Amazon collects all that data, and under GDPR they have to provide all the data they have on your profile. Seems pretty standard. Google provides…
This is like when someone tweets "drank 6 oz of cold medication feeling lit" and the pharmaceutical corporate account responds with a generic pharmacovigilance statement that they're mandated by law to say and then someone screenshots it and it becomes a meme.
Re: Amazon suggests user delete tweet showing how much data they collect
#24I question the appropriateness of @AmazonHelp jumping into a thread that it was not tagged in and that is not even asking for help with anything.
Alexa heard someone talking about this and summoned them. (=
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#25I used to work at Amazon, but even then it's pretty clear the support person is erring on the side of caution here. in isolation two grocery store addresses and orders isn't particularly illuminating, but tying it with their real name it suddenly provides information on where they've been in past few years that might not otherwise have. and what if their order history accidentally contained something embarassing? i t…
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#27If you log into a loyalty account for a Kroger store (QFC, Fred Meyer, others)... you see similar transaction lists. This is extremely normal for retailers. Also, machine learning can create shadow profiles for people, even those who don't have a loyalty account. (E.g., a purchase occurs every Friday around 5:30 and buys a specific beer and specific brats...). This is all obvious stuff to me, but, also, people might…
Does paying in cash "protect" me from these shadow profiles?
This is why I use -867-5309 for every "loyalty" chain. I'd rather get the discount but also mix my data with as many other people as possible to make it worthless.
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#28So I hate my data being collected like this, and try to reduce when it happens whenever I can. But, buying an Alexa and then complaining they store the audio? When they confirmed they kept it about two years ago? Imagine I found out the library kept a list of titles I borrowed! Or my bank account storing my transactions.
It is my impression that at least some librarians are adamant about not storing lists of titles borrowed by a single individual.
Re: Amazon suggests user delete tweet showing how much data they collect
#29Title is misleading. They didn't really suggest to delete the tweet because of the fact it shows their data collection, but because it contains some PII like the user's address. I don't want to side with Amazon on this, but I genuinely believe there is nothing strange here: Amazon collects all that data, and under GDPR they have to provide all the data they have on your profile. Seems pretty standard. Google provides…
> because it contains some PII like the user's address.
Does it, though? Where?
Re: Amazon suggests user delete tweet showing how much data they collect
#30Title is misleading. They didn't really suggest to delete the tweet because of the fact it shows their data collection, but because it contains some PII like the user's address. I don't want to side with Amazon on this, but I genuinely believe there is nothing strange here: Amazon collects all that data, and under GDPR they have to provide all the data they have on your profile. Seems pretty standard. Google provides…
I don't see the user's address listed. I checked and the two addresses I do see are Whole Foods locations. >Google provides the same amount of data (or more) if you ask :) Facebook too. And Apple and so on. Doesn't make it a good thing.
It's a good thing they provide it, it's a bad thing they collect it.
Anyways, yes, I stand corrected. Those ywo addresses are related to Whole Foods, not the user's location. My bad!