The highest tier included leaders in Congress and in the legislatures of two key states: Apple California and Washington, where Amazon fought privacy legislation. Such VIPs ("Very Important Policymakers") should be targeted for meetings, Amazon site visits or campaign donations at least annually.





Customers must disable access to phone contacts, not just delete the Alexa app, in order to delete the records from their Amazon account. Amazon said Alexa users must give permission for the company to access phone contacts. The device had already gathered all of his phone contacts, part of a feature that allows users to make calls through the device.



And they can disconnect their contacts or calendars from their smart-speaker devices if they don´t want to use Alexa´s calling or scheduling functions. Alexa users, for instance, can stop Amazon from saving their recordings or have them automatically deleted periodically.

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In 2017, the two legislators widened that definition in a way that might apply to voice recordings.
That drew a rebuke from Clauson, who emailed Harmsworth saying: "We do not agree to the definition." She sent him a bill markup from privacy consultant Leslie Dunlap calling the definition "not acceptable." Amazon paid Dunlap´s firm $15,000 a month, a 2017 Amazon public-policy planning document shows.



The only way for customers to delete much of this personal data is to close their account, Amazon said.
The company said it retains some information, Amazon Books such as purchase history, after account closure to comply with legal obligations.

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Then, after 26 years away from home, I returned to the UK in 2014 and she let me spend three months at her Cornwall cottage, just working on myself. That was when I realised I was done with meeting women in nightclubs.

police and intelligence agencies surveilling Muslims for suspected terrorist links after the attacks of Sept. Finding information about his listening to the Quran disclosed in his Amazon file, he said, made Samirah think about the history of U.S.

Amazon stopped disclosing how often it complies with such requests last year. Asked why, Amazon said it expanded the scope of the U.S. report to make it global, and "streamlined" the information from each country on law enforcement inquiries.

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Nov 19 (Reuters) - In recent years, Amazon.com Inc has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states, as the e-commerce giant amassed a lucrative trove of personal data on millions of American consumers.

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The data reveals the company´s ability to amass strikingly intimate portraits of individual consumers. website Seven Reuters reporters also obtained their Amazon files. Amazon customers can obtain their data by filling out a form on Amazon.com.

states, up from at least 62 lobbyists in 27 states in 2014, the year before Carney arrived, ivayabni.co.kr according to a Reuters analysis of state records. By 2020, Amazon had registered at least 180 lobbyists in 44 U.S.

Both said the economic impact of Amazon and the technology industry factored into their decisions. Morris said the authors sought a "middle ground" that protected consumers without harming companies including Amazon, a major state employer. Both said Amazon did not have outsized influence.