From Futurism · Frank Landymore · · 50s
Amazon's Insulting Customer Dossiers
Amazon's detailed customer profiles include insulting remarks about users' bodies and habits.
In brief
Amazon's detailed customer profiles include insulting remarks about users' bodies and habits. Amazon's customer data page makes blunt, sometimes offensive assumptions about shoppers' physical traits and behaviors. Originally reported by Futurism.
Amazon's Customer Dossiers
A customer discovered Amazon's page of assumptions about her based on purchases.
“has flat buttocks”
Insulting Customer Profiles
Amazon's dossiers include offensive statements like 'has no friends' and 'fifty-year-old man'.
“has no friends”
Invasive Data Inferences
The dossiers make bizarre claims such as 'has a stomach that hangs over their vagina' and 'uses phone in shower'.
“has a stomach that hangs over their vagina”
How to Access Dossiers
Users can view their Amazon data by clicking 'Account' and then 'Shopping preferences'.
Amazon's Data Practices
Amazon keeps detailed records on customers, including habits like reading Kindle in showers.
“uses phone in the shower to read Kindle books”
In short
Amazon's customer data page makes blunt, sometimes offensive assumptions about shoppers' physical traits and behaviors.
