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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
.. Anything done on the internet is out in the public, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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That's just one of these claims that are being trotted out repeatedly without any supporting arguments. When I do online banking I do indeed expect privacy, to give just one example. What Amazon is doing here isn't remotely like "overhearing someone on the sidewalk", it is far more comparable to bugging someone's home. It's not even being done "on the internet", it's done on the user's computer.