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Title is misleading. They didn't really suggest to delete the tweet because of the fact it shows their data collection, but because it contains some PII like th

Title is misleading. They didn't really suggest to delete the tweet because of the fact it shows their data collection, but because it contains some PII like the user's address. I don't want to side with Amazon on this, but I genuinely believe there is nothing strange here: Amazon collects all that data, and under GDPR they have to provide all the data they have on your profile. Seems pretty standard. Google provides the same amount of data (or more) if you ask :)

mcphage 5y ago
> because it contains some PII like the user's address. Does it, though? Where?
- denysvitali 5y ago
  Sorry. I'm wrong. It does contain a shop location but not the user address. Still, could be considered PII or at least could be juicy information.
  - mcphage 5y ago
    Whole Foods store locations are neither PII nor juicy information—especially not sufficient to justify Amazon responding unprompted, encouraging the poster to delete these tweets.
    - denysvitali 5y ago
      To be honest I would consider "X went to Y at time Z" to be a sensitive information. Whether you care about privacy or not, that's another issue
      - mcphage 5y ago
        > To be honest I would consider "X went to Y at time Z" to be a sensitive information It's not personally identifying information. > Whether you care about privacy or not, that's another issue Lol, that's quite the false dichotomy you got there.
37 5y ago
I don't see the user's address listed. I checked and the two addresses I do see are Whole Foods locations. >Google provides the same amount of data (or more) if you ask :) Facebook too. And Apple and so on. Doesn't make it a good thing.
- denysvitali 5y ago
  It's a good thing they provide it, it's a bad thing they collect it. Anyways, yes, I stand corrected. Those ywo addresses are related to Whole Foods, not the user's location. My bad!
dnissley 5y ago
Yeah, this is pretty obviously something that their support team copy-pastes everytime they see someone posting potentially revealing information with the keyword "amazon" or "alexa" or something like that. Evidence for this theory: https://twitter.com/search?q=We%20encourage%20not%20including%20personally%20identifiable%20information%20over%20social%20media&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=We%20encourage%20not%20includin...
- minimaxir 5y ago
  A good internet rule is to never attribute to malice what can be attributed to automation.
- dijksterhuis 5y ago
  This search just sent me down a half hour rabbit hole of what in the actual fuck... after I discovered the user behind this thread... > The Terrorist are ordering off Amazon. They stole my last parcel package, I did not tweet about it. My green light, don’t report it. https://twitter.com/HeidiNarco/status/1485408221024210944?cxt=HHwWgMC-iYa6nZ0pAAAA https://twitter.com/HeidiNarco/status/1485408221024210944?cx...
yeeetz 5y ago
This is like when someone tweets "drank 6 oz of cold medication feeling lit" and the pharmaceutical corporate account responds with a generic pharmacovigilance statement that they're mandated by law to say and then someone screenshots it and it becomes a meme.
- alpaca128 5y ago
  It's definitely not that clear. Sure, Amazon's response was probably just a standard text the support team has to use. But it can also be interpreted like "here's an arbitrary reason you should delete this tweet about our data collection, and look how easy it is!". That's what you get when an anti-competitive megacorporation collecting data about everything including how many seconds users looked at a picture wants to look trustworthy.

mcphage 5y ago

> because it contains some PII like the user's address. Does it, though? Where?

denysvitali 5y ago
Sorry. I'm wrong. It does contain a shop location but not the user address. Still, could be considered PII or at least could be juicy information.
- mcphage 5y ago
  Whole Foods store locations are neither PII nor juicy information—especially not sufficient to justify Amazon responding unprompted, encouraging the poster to delete these tweets.
  - denysvitali 5y ago
    To be honest I would consider "X went to Y at time Z" to be a sensitive information. Whether you care about privacy or not, that's another issue
    - mcphage 5y ago
      > To be honest I would consider "X went to Y at time Z" to be a sensitive information It's not personally identifying information. > Whether you care about privacy or not, that's another issue Lol, that's quite the false dichotomy you got there.

37 5y ago

I don't see the user's address listed. I checked and the two addresses I do see are Whole Foods locations. >Google provides the same amount of data (or more) if you ask :) Facebook too. And Apple and so on. Doesn't make it a good thing.

denysvitali 5y ago
It's a good thing they provide it, it's a bad thing they collect it. Anyways, yes, I stand corrected. Those ywo addresses are related to Whole Foods, not the user's location. My bad!

dnissley 5y ago

Yeah, this is pretty obviously something that their support team copy-pastes everytime they see someone posting potentially revealing information with the keyword "amazon" or "alexa" or something like that. Evidence for this theory: https://twitter.com/search?q=We%20encourage%20not%20including%20personally%20identifiable%20information%20over%20social%20media&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=We%20encourage%20not%20includin...

minimaxir 5y ago
A good internet rule is to never attribute to malice what can be attributed to automation.
dijksterhuis 5y ago
This search just sent me down a half hour rabbit hole of what in the actual fuck... after I discovered the user behind this thread... > The Terrorist are ordering off Amazon. They stole my last parcel package, I did not tweet about it. My green light, don’t report it. https://twitter.com/HeidiNarco/status/1485408221024210944?cxt=HHwWgMC-iYa6nZ0pAAAA https://twitter.com/HeidiNarco/status/1485408221024210944?cx...

yeeetz 5y ago

This is like when someone tweets "drank 6 oz of cold medication feeling lit" and the pharmaceutical corporate account responds with a generic pharmacovigilance statement that they're mandated by law to say and then someone screenshots it and it becomes a meme.

alpaca128 5y ago
It's definitely not that clear. Sure, Amazon's response was probably just a standard text the support team has to use. But it can also be interpreted like "here's an arbitrary reason you should delete this tweet about our data collection, and look how easy it is!". That's what you get when an anti-competitive megacorporation collecting data about everything including how many seconds users looked at a picture wants to look trustworthy.