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Originally Posted by MGlitch
You can expect whatever you’d like until the cows come home. It’s logical that Amazon et al would have stronger safeguards against that data being breached because they’re under more scrutiny and pressure than your local corner store, further they’ve got the resources and don’t keep your data on a computer protected by a door lock.
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In utopia, maybe. In the real world it's a pipe dream. In case you haven't noticed, private information is constantly being "leaked" to the press these days (even in high government offices with classified information). Expecting corporations to "do the right thing" with your private information is optimism on steroids. Amazon even has a "Law Enforcement Portal" that allows police agencies to request specific information about Amazon's customers. This obviously means that this data is stored and available on request — and that means that it
can be leaked or stolen by a hacker.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Interesting that you cling to your choice of doing business with those small businesses yet criticize others for making a choice to do business with Amazon et al. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and if you insist on holding your right to choose to give your information away to certain businesses so to should others be free to do so without you decrying their choices and demeaning them.
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And once again you defend Amazon by conflating normal information collected by businesses (collecting addresses, phone numbers, payment methods) with recording private conversations in the customers' own homes.