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“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting: Here's how to check yours.
futurism.com/future-society/amazon-detailed-records-customers-insulting
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Some of the records they have are silly. Ie: likely owns x router (well duh I just purchased it). But some are odd - “can touch type without looking at keyboard”. How did they figure that out?
Replying to @aceshigh@lemmy.world
If you have a webcam, is it possible they had some kind of software watching your eyes while you were typing? Or am I just being paranoid now
Replying to @kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
I keep my camera closed. But I image the light would go on if I was being watched?
Replying to @aceshigh@lemmy.world
It can be set not to turn on the light. Had an incident on an HP workstation where it said camera was off but it was broadcasting. Had to do some command line low level stuff to set the state of it to actually off. LED came on and off when toggle for web calls, but turning the camera off wasn’t actually doing that.