Connect with us

Technology

A look at the data Amazon collects on consumers through its services

Published

3 years ago

on

A look at the data Amazon collects on consumers through its services

As a lawmaker in Virginia, Ibraheem Samirah studied Internet privacy issues and debated how to regulate the personal data collected by technology companies. Nevertheless, he was shocked when he learned the full details of the information that Amazon.com Inc had collected about him. The e-commerce giant has more than 1,000 contacts on its mobile phone. It records which part of the Qur’an that Samira, who grew up as a Muslim, listened to on December 17th last year.

The company is aware of every search he conducts on its platform, including searches for books on “progressive community organizations” and other sensitive health-related queries that he considers to be private. “Are they selling products or monitoring ordinary people?” asked Samila, a Democrat in the Virginia House of Representatives. Samira is one of the few Virginia lawmakers to oppose the industry-friendly state privacy bill passed by Amazon earlier this year.

At the request of Reuters, Samira asked Amazon to disclose the data it had collected about him as a consumer. The company collected a large amount of information about its U.S. customers, and after trying and failing to defeat the 2018 California measures that required such disclosures, it began making this data available to everyone upon request at the beginning of last year.

(U.S. Amazon customers can obtain their data by filling out a form on Amazon.com.) Seven Reuters reporters also obtained their Amazon documents. Data shows that the company has the ability to collect amazing private portraits for individual consumers. Amazon collects consumer data through its Alexa voice assistant, e-commerce marketplace, Kindle e-readers, Audible audiobooks, its video and music platforms, home security cameras and fitness trackers.

Advertisement

Alexa-enabled devices record in people’s homes, and the Ring security camera captures every visitor. This information can reveal a person’s height, weight, and health; their race (through clues contained in voice data) and political leanings; their reading and buying habits; their whereabouts on any given day, and sometimes they have seen People.

A reporter’s file shows that Amazon collected more than 90,000 Alexa recordings of family members between December 2017 and June 2021—an average of about 70 copies per day. The recording includes detailed information, such as the names of the reporter’s young children and their favorite songs.

News Source : The Indian Express

Advertisement
Related Topics:
Continue Reading

Hollywood

Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Published

2 weeks ago

on

October 22, 2024

By

Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

Advertisement

Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

Advertisement

As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

Group Media Publications
Entertainment News Platforms – anyflix.in      
Construction Infrastructure and Mining News Platform – https://cimreviews.com/
General News Platform – https://ihtlive.com/

Continue Reading
Anyskill-ads

Facebook

Trending