The cartoon playing out in the media once again reminds me of Gell-Mann Amnesia because I used to work at Alexa. The lengths that they go to for preserving consumer privacy actually seemed absurd to me. Alexa engineers and applied scientists' lives would have been much easier if they didn't take customer privacy -- and their right to request and delete their data -- so seriously. Yes, they are lobbying against regula…
no business wants to have to deal with 50 different laws in 50 states. Amazon already does this in a thousand ways, from labor laws to labeling laws to paying thousands of different sales tax rates to thousands of different states, towns, and other municipalities. If this was a startup, maybe you'd have a case. But it's a trillion-dollar company. Suck it up, buttercup. Or just do the simple thing: Follow the most res…
Congratulations. Now we can have no new start ups that compete with Amazon, because the regulatory burden is too high.
Also, you can’t make privacy laws that only apply to large corporations. Why should a smaller company get to pass on privacy laws when Amazon doesn’t? That violates 14th amendment of the constitution.