The list goes on and on and on.Īnd what do they do with all that personal information they collect on you? Well, they use it to target you advertising, of course. Things like: records of your shopping habits, Alexa search requests, the TV shows you watch and when you watch them, the music you stream, the podcasts you listen to, when you turn your lights on and off, when you lock your doors, identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address, your age, gender, your location, audio and visual information like those Alexa-requests or photos you take, the names and numbers of people listed in your contacts. So, while Amazon might not be in the business of selling your personal information, they are in the business of selling access to your information to others to target ads to sell you more stuff.Īnd to do this, Amazon likes to collect an enormous amount of data on you.

And those sellers get to use that data Amazon collects on you to target you with the stuff they want to sell. Amazon has a whole program for others to sell you stuff on on their sites too. And it’s not just Amazon hoping to sell you stuff. Because Amazon is in the business of selling you more stuff. But, Amazon doesn’t need to sell your data to others when they have their own advertising and retail juggernaut to use your data to sell you more stuff. Amazon proudly states they are not in the business of selling your personal information to others.

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