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Originally Posted by geneven
I first joined the ACLU when I was like 12, so I know what you mean, but I'm not worried much about Amazon as a company. I can't imagine what it would do that would seriously affect me, except blab to prospective employers about my tastes in literature. And my tastes are generally quite high. And I'm not looking for a job... I think that the 1984 removal was just a weird glitch, unlikely to be repeated, not very significant, something the bloggers were happy about because it gave them something to grill Amazon over.
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Nowadays any company will store any purchase made by credit card on their server, to tailor future ad campaigns, for statistical purposes, etc. So even if you buy pbooks somewhere, unless you pay cash and leave no trace, there will be a record for all eternity (since most Americans hardly ever use cash). And companies like Google know more about you than you know yourself.