VIRGINIA - As a Virginia lawmaker, Dr Ibraheem Samirah has studied Internet privacy issues and debated how to regulate tech firms' collection of personal data. Still, he was stunned to learn the full details of the information that Amazon.com has collected on him. The e-commerce giant had more than 1,000 contacts from his phone. It had records of which part.
As a Virginia lawmaker, Ibraheem Samirah has studied Internet privacy issues and debated how to regulate tech firms’ collection of personal data. Still, he was stunned to learn the full details of the information Amazon.com Inc has collected on him.
The e-commerce giant had more than 1,000 contacts from his smartphone. It had records of exactly which part of the Koran that Samirah, who was raised as a Muslim, had listened to on Dec. 17 of last year. The company knew every search he had made on its platform, including one for books on “progressive community organizing” and other sensitive health-related
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