Amazon knows more about you than your best friend
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- Do you see Amazon’s data driven service as a tailored service to increase your satisfaction, or do you feel uncomfortable that your personal information is their hands?
- Do you use Amazon or other similar retail services that suggests products tailored to you? Please provide an example of your experience.
- Have you given explicit consent to the retailer about collecting your personal data?
- Now people have invited Amazon into their homes with Alexa and more data will be collected. What are your thoughts on this?
- What do you think of Amazon’s potential in surveillance and policing?
- Do you think Amazon is a monopoly? Should the government intervene in the expansion of Amazon?
- Do you think the average consumer is appropriately educated on the importance of data privacy and protection?
- Can you list the new vocabulary you learned from this article? What are the definitions of the vocabulary in this context? Can you make your own sentence with the words?