Technology

I was hoping to find some saucy info on myself, but instead I got things like "prefers premium coffee brands with consistent flavor profiles" and "likely has a workshop"

My first item "uses Linux"... But does it know I use arch btw?

Jeff Bezos hosted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos had many close ties to Epstein. Bezos also had numerous private dinners with Epstein.

The photo is from a party where Ghislaine Maxwell hobnobbed with him but make no mistake they were close friends.

Make sure to add this note to your files about Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

People discovering their apps watch them.

Amazon is definitely going to plug that hole.

The "manage your information" section doesn't exist where I'm at.

(Yes, I did a text search)

Instead, we have "request your data" which likely would give you complete files of all data they have on you. I'm not going to crawl through that right now.

Amazon has spent years turning customer surveillance into a business model, and now we discover it apparently keeps detailed records while insulting the very people funding its empire. Nothing says customer obsession quite like treating customers as data mines and punchlines. Bezos built a trillion dollar machine that knows your shopping habits but apparently never learned basic respect.

This definitely seems to be US-based at the moment. The relevant page doesn't exist on the Australian site, but if I log into the Amazon US site, it is there (albeit blank in my case, which is interesting).

Mine just told me that they do not have any information about me outside of my shopping history and tried to get me to activate Alexa to change that - over my dead body lol

These are pulled from the item descriptions. OP probably bought something 'for flat butts' and boom it goes in their preferences.

Mine is literally just all things I bought from amazon. So yeah.

It thinks I'm married with two kids, because well, I buy lots of toys and things for women for the holidays... well yeah because I have nephews/nieces and two sisters... so of course I buy things for kid and women regularly as gifts.

Seems to be a US-thing. I see the preferences, but they're all empty.

Must be an American thing where no rules for corporations exist. Nothing on my swedish version.

Thanks for posting this, prompted me to log in and delete my account

Ain't got shit on me. 😤

I logged into my old US account. It didn't have anythin on me, but did have this:

LOL. Fuck no.

I like knowing how little Amazon actually knows about me. It's a relief to see.

It also claimed someone kept a “seasonal rotation of decorative goose outfits,”

Now I'm interested

You know who has no friends?

Douchebag Jeff Bezos. That's who.

Everyone fucking hates you dude.

One of the items on my profile is "Probably lives in [my city], [my state]". They have my shipping address, shouldn't they be a bit more confident about it?

Looking through the info they have on me, it seems entirely made up of information regarding past purchases and shipping locations. It mentioned having 2 people at my address, but said other person has an account linked to mine and with the same shipping address, so it's all relatively shallow information. I didn't see any deep dive "HOW DID THEY GET THAT??" stuff that would otherwise be alarming.

Edit: I should add that I don't own or use any of their Alexa products or any related technology. Those might spy on people a little more thoroughly.

am I the only person who doesn't have an amazon account

There is no "about you" option on the Canadian version 🤔

This should shock no one and if anything the shocking thing is transparency (though that is likely a ploy as I guarantee based on these articles plenty of people will go view it to correct the record, giving Amazon a great source of refinement for ad tracking)

Literally every major website (and basically every website that run JavaScript for that matter) tracks and profiles you. Your tv does the same, as does your phone and almost all the apps on it, etc. and the profiling they don’t show you definitely exists: race, political affiliation/leaning, income estimates, address, educational level, health issues, etc

I haven't logged into my Amazon account in ten years, and this won't make me do it.

Learn the difference between need and want. Stop buying crap you don't need. And, never knowingly buy anything off Amazon.

Fuck Amazon, and Jeff Bezos. All excuses people make to willingly buy off that fucking site are bullshit.

To find such information for ourselves, the link says "you can pull up the page by clicking on the “Account” link".

• But there is no such “Account” link when I look, only a "Your Account" link and the difference matters.

under the Account & Lists drop down menu.

• yes I have "Account & Lists" option.

Scroll to the bottom of the page you land on and click a small link that says “manage your information” and there you have it."

• no such “manage your information" for me.

That's why online software instructions are rarely useful, they most often mention options that are not availabel when I look for them. Possibly because things are updated too often.

Maintains personal grooming routines

OMG, how embarrassing!

Some of the records they have are silly. Ie: likely owns x router (well duh I just purchased it). But some are odd - “can touch type without looking at keyboard”. How did they figure that out?