It's worthy of note that the reason Amazon sued NC in the first place is that the state wanted purchaser information as well as the books they purchased. Amazon turned over the list of all items sold in NC - without the customer information - so that the state could add up all the purchases, add up the sales tax remitted, and see that Amazon was complying with the state's requirements about collecting sales tax. When the state said "that's not good enough, we want the individual purchasers and the records of what each one purchased", Amazon went to the mat to avoid giving up that information.
Honestly, I'm far more worried about Microsoft than Amazon.com when it comes to privacy.
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