{"id":4893,"date":"2022-02-27T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/the-data-game-what-amazon-knows-about-you-and-how-to-stop-it\/"},"modified":"2022-02-27T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:37:34","slug":"the-data-game-what-amazon-knows-about-you-and-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/the-data-game-what-amazon-knows-about-you-and-how-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The data game: what Amazon knows about you and how to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tech giant has many ways of gathering information about its users\u2019 activity \u2013 from Prime to Alexa. But how much can it collect and what can you do to keep your life private?<\/p>\n

From selling books out of Jeff Bezos\u2019s garage to a global conglomerate with a yearly revenue topping $400bn (\u00a3290bn), much of the monstrous growth of Amazon has been fuelled by its customers\u2019 data. Continuous analysis of customer data determines, among other things, prices, suggested purchases and what profitable own-label products Amazon chooses to produce. The 200 million users who are Amazon Prime members are not only the corporation\u2019s most valuable customers but also their richest source of user data. The more Amazon and services you use \u2013 whether it\u2019s the shopping app, the Kindle e-reader, the Ring doorbell, Echo smart speaker or the Prime streaming service \u2013 the more their algorithms can infer what kind of person you are and what you are most likely to buy next. The firm\u2019s software is so accomplished at prediction that third parties can hire its algorithms as a service called Amazon Forecast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not everyone is happy about this level of surveillance. Those who have requested their data from Amazon are astonished by the vast amounts of information they are sent, including audio files<\/a> from each time they speak to the company\u2019s voice assistant, Alexa.<\/p>\n

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\nThe tech giant has many ways of gathering information about its users\u2019 activity \u2013 from Prime to Alexa. But how much can it collect and what can you do to keep your life private?
\nFrom selling books out of Jeff Bezos\u2019s garage to a global conglomerate with a yearly revenue topping $400bn (\u00a3290bn), much of the monstrous growth of Amazon has been fuelled by its customers\u2019 data. Continuous analysis of customer data determines, among other things, prices, suggested purchases and what profitable own-label products Amazon chooses to produce. The 200 million users who are Amazon Prime members are not only the corporation\u2019s most valuable customers but also their richest source of user data. The more Amazon and services you use \u2013 whether it\u2019s the shopping app, the Kindle e-reader, the Ring doorbell, Echo smart speaker or the Prime streaming service \u2013 the more their algorithms can infer what kind of person you are and what you are most likely to buy next. The firm\u2019s software is so accomplished at prediction that third parties can hire its algorithms as a service called Amazon Forecast.
\nNot everyone is happy about this level of surveillance. Those who have requested their data from Amazon are astonished by the vast amounts of information they are sent, including audio files from each time they speak to the company\u2019s voice assistant, Alexa. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tech giant has many ways of gathering information about its users\u2019 activity \u2013 from Prime to Alexa. But how much can it collect and what can you do to keep your life private? From selling books out of Jeff Bezos\u2019s garage to a global conglomerate with a yearly revenue topping $400bn (\u00a3290bn), much of …<\/p>\n

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