Amazon Is Analyzing the Personal Relationships of Its Reviewers

Schneier on Security 2015-07-08

Summary:

This is an interesting story of a reviewer who had her review deleted because Amazon believed she knew the author personally.

Leaving completely aside the ethics of friends reviewing friends' books, what is Amazon doing conducting this kind of investigative surveillance? Do reviewers know that Amazon is keeping tabs on who their friends are?

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/amazon_is_analy.html

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Tags:

privacy identification datamining amazon

Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

07/08/2015, 08:01

Date published:

07/08/2015, 07:36