The company gathers a vast array of information on its United States customers, and it started making that data available to all upon request early last year, after trying and failing to defeat a 2018 California measure requiring such disclosures. At Reuters news’ request, Samirah asked Amazon to disclose the data it collected on him as a consumer. Samirah was among the few Virginia legislators who opposed an industry-friendly, Amazon-drafted state privacy bill that passed earlier this year. “Are they selling products, or are they spying on everyday people?” asked Samirah, a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates. The company knew every search he had made on its platform, including one for books on “progressive community organizing” and other sensitive health-related inquiries he thought were private. It had records of exactly which part of the Quran that Samirah, who was raised as a Muslim, had listened to on December 17 of last year.
The e-commerce giant had more than 1,000 contacts from his phone.
Still, he was stunned to learn the full details of the information Inc has collected on him. As a Virginia legislator, Ibraheem Samirah has studied internet privacy issues and debated how to regulate tech firms’ collection of personal data.
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