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My Amazon home page shows me how much the company knows about me and my online activities. Here we show you which privacy and security settings can help you reduce the information Amazon holds about you.
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Although I am not logged in, Amazon shows me how much it knows about me and my online activities.
Band of Brothers refers to an MP3 file in my Dropbox folder, placed there last week, and Kindle Fire is one of the terms used in a distribution list email I received recently. I have been researching Cloud drive options for a client today and my Facebook feed has been full of Comic Con posts. So Amazon knows a lot about me. How?
Amazon customises future shopping ideas for you from the information you give it on the web site. Whenever you search for an item on Amazon, buy something, talk to customer service or respond to a competition, Amazon updates the information it holds about you.
You might use Amazon wish lists, write reviews or ask to be alerted when a product becomes available. If you make a purchase with your credit card, 1-Click Ordering keeps your data.
If you are not happy with the amount of information Amazon holds about you, click through this gallery to find out what you can do to control how much of your private data it has.
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