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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
(www.fastcompany.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2026
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This is probably going to be unpopular on Lemmy, The Nuanceless Platform, but IF the data collection is confined to what they show me here, I'm okay. Because I bought some solder, a pair of calipers, and some computer parts from Amazon, they think I "build electronics." Amazon has a reason to know this about me as a customer, especially if I can see and even manually delete/change it. As humorous as it may be that they apparently think a customer has a flat ass, that's relevant information if you buy clothing from them, they'll steer you away from the bubble butt shorts that you'll almost certainly return.
The problem is when they want to start installing apps on my phone, new devices in my house, with microphones and radars that are always collecting data about what I do, what I say, where I am. THAT'S the part we need to be dismembering executives over.