Information from third-party delivery companies.Your credit history from credit bureaus as part of their fraud prevention.The third type of information Amazon collects on you is what they receive from 3rd-party companies.Įxamples of this external data would be stuff like: Now Amazon has said in their privacy policy that they are not in the business of selling this data to anybody else, so you don’t really have to worry about that.īut the kind of profile they’re able to build on us is alarming and it’s one of many reasons why regulators are trying to break up big tech companies. Every scroll and click you make on the website.Log of every record of motion on your Ring doorbell log.Recordings of every request made of Alexa.Your IP address, which provides your general location.The device you’re using (iOS, Android, mobile, desktop, etc.).I mean, sure, it makes sense that they track what kind of products you’re looking to buy, but they also track metadata such as: The second type of information Amazon collects, which I’ll call your metadata, is a bit shadier. They’re literally just storing the troves of information you’re giving them. The point here is that Amazon isn’t doing anything underhanded here. They haven’t stolen that data or taken it without your knowledge. Obviously, in order for us to make purchases and have them delivered, providing this kind of data is necessary. We browse their website, use their apps, purchase products, give them our credit card info, address for delivery and so on. The first and most obvious way is the data we voluntarily give them.
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