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Amazon has promised individual sellers it would not use the data for their products to market against them (not individual buyers). Despite the ludicrous lengt
by thoraway1010 7y ago
Amazon has promised individual sellers it would not use the data for their products to market against them (not individual buyers).
Despite the ludicrous lengths Amazon goes here to say there were multiple sellers and so this data was aggregate, we all understand (and amazon did too) that if you generate statistics such as median sale price per month / day etc where 99.95% of the data comes from one seller, you have the data from that seller.
- TimSchumann 7y ago> Amazon has promised individual sellers it would not use the data for their products to market against them (not individual buyers). Again, there's that word. Individual. They get off on a technicality with that comment to congress. The second you have even 0.05% (Your example, not mine.) of any category occupied by a second reseller, you're no longer targeting individuals -- you're entering a 'product vertical'. Amazon does exactly what you're claiming they do not.
- malcolmgreaves 7y agoIf they aggregate data from individuals, they're using the individual's data. They didn't get off on a technicality, they're simply lying.