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Re:Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales by NovemberWhiskey on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:15AM (#27025347)
... because it's a colossal breach of trust. AWS has an entire staff of people whose job it is to convince clients that they can be trusted to be a safe custodian of data that includes heavily regulated types of data.

Doing this would blow a huge hole in that.

Do you really think banks are going to stay in AWS if this happens? Do you really think Salesforce is going to be OK with it? Do you think they'd ever do any US Govt business again?

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Re:Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales by jjoonathan on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:31PM (#27091768)
Yes, yes (to the extent of maintaining their business relationship), and yes. I think you vastly underestimate the power of apathy. 99% of their customers won't even think about it, 90% of the customers who do think about it won't weigh its importance strongly enough to even potentially impact their decision, and 90% of the remaining customers will be satisfied with some minor deflection, platitudes, and hand-waving.

Don't get me wrong, I wish you were right, I just don't think you are.

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