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Amazon owns Alexa, just to make that clear.
by taopao 13y ago
Amazon owns Alexa, just to make that clear.
- gohrt 13y agoWhich sort of shows what a farce this hullaboo about information sharing is. "Megacorp promises not to share your information with other companies", but Megacorp owns dozens to hundreds of company-like projects anyway.
- jlgaddis 13y agoUsually, they say they can/will share data with their "affiliates" -- you know, pretty much anybody they might enter into any type of agreement with.
- jrockway 13y agoI think these agreements are in place so that if a malicious employee is hired and he accesses your data without authorization, they can fire the employee and be done. If their privacy policy said they wouldn't share the data, then they'd have to pay you damages. Since users aren't demanding actual privacy but do demand damages when they technically can, one would expect every company to write this sort of policy.
- drivingmenuts 13y agoThe affiliate agreements allow them to further monetize the data by selling access to third parties without fear of getting sued. Someone who's hired isn't an affiliate, he's an employee. Generally, the usage of the term "affiliate" (ie., sales affiliate) is a corporatism designed to make a wage slave job sound better than it is.
- JosephHatfield 13y agoI believe that in the US (as opposed to the EEA) companies are allowed to share most non-sensitive data with affiliates and partners as long as they tell you that and provide an "Opt-Out" clause in their privacy statement. The default there is that data is shared unless you demand otherwise. If companies want to share sensitive data (medical info and the like) they also have to mention in this in their privacy statement but the clause there must be "Opt-In" instead with the default being that data is not shared.