📑 Amazon launches a program to pay consumers for their data on non-Amazon purchases
Amazon claims it will delete any sensitive information from the receipts users upload, like prescription information. But it doesn’t delete users’ personal information, instead storing it in accordance with its existing Privacy Policy. It will allow users to delete their previously uploaded receipts, if they choose.
Amazon’s attempt to collect receipts just makes me wonder how this might be gamed. It is going to make me more mindful of the receipts I merely throw away. I am reminded of the RFID cloners in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother.