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Developer's Amazon account (incl. AWS) permanently closed after login from Japan

28 points by waffle_ss 11y ago

evolve2k 11y ago
Permanent closure here is just idiocy. This raises a valid concern especially when traveling, it would be good if large web services allowed you to signify your travel intentions. One idea might be to allow you to whitelist countries you are planning to visit during your travel window.
- maxander 11y ago
  A solution which requires us to share even more of our personal data with internet giants, on pain of losing access to important services, strikes me as less than ideal.
  - evolve2k 11y ago
    They'll already know that someone is trying to authenticate as you from Thailand, IMHO may as well tell them it will probably be you. I also get your point on generally minimizing the leakage of your private information as a general principal.
joesmo 11y ago
Shopping from overseas is apparently yet another reason Amazon will close your account. Also if you try to return things. It's amazing how little Amazon cares about customers.
eveningcoffee 11y ago
This actually reflects a very dangerous problem about peoples free movement and trade. I do not know how to handle this, but it really needs very serious attention.
dilemma 11y ago
I just had my YouTube account effectively closed for login in from Tokyo.
bobwaycott 11y ago
This is pretty worrisome, and quite stupid. I like to travel, and never before thought about such an unexpected, potentially ruinous problem. Here's a free idea, which is probably pretty stupid, to which I've given exactly 0.2s of thought: Launch a service that validates travel legitimacy through credit card networks. Basically, a transparent and near-instant check that simply asks the CC networks if an account owner is traveling in location X. My card providers always know when I'm traveling, and are quite intelligent about making sure my card always works. When going out of state/country for any length of time exceeding a weekend to an unusual place, I always tell my card providers. Otherwise, they tend to be pretty good at figuring it out when I don't.

28 points by waffle_ss 11y ago

Permanent closure here is just idiocy. This raises a valid concern especially when traveling, it would be good if large web services allowed you to signify your travel intentions. One idea might be to allow you to whitelist countries you are planning to visit during your travel window.

maxander 11y ago
A solution which requires us to share even more of our personal data with internet giants, on pain of losing access to important services, strikes me as less than ideal.
- evolve2k 11y ago
  They'll already know that someone is trying to authenticate as you from Thailand, IMHO may as well tell them it will probably be you. I also get your point on generally minimizing the leakage of your private information as a general principal.

joesmo 11y ago

Shopping from overseas is apparently yet another reason Amazon will close your account. Also if you try to return things. It's amazing how little Amazon cares about customers.

eveningcoffee 11y ago

This actually reflects a very dangerous problem about peoples free movement and trade. I do not know how to handle this, but it really needs very serious attention.

dilemma 11y ago

I just had my YouTube account effectively closed for login in from Tokyo.

bobwaycott 11y ago

This is pretty worrisome, and quite stupid. I like to travel, and never before thought about such an unexpected, potentially ruinous problem. Here's a free idea, which is probably pretty stupid, to which I've given exactly 0.2s of thought: Launch a service that validates travel legitimacy through credit card networks. Basically, a transparent and near-instant check that simply asks the CC networks if an account owner is traveling in location X. My card providers always know when I'm traveling, and are quite intelligent about making sure my card always works. When going out of state/country for any length of time exceeding a weekend to an unusual place, I always tell my card providers. Otherwise, they tend to be pretty good at figuring it out when I don't.