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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:38 am Post subject: Privacy suit takes aim at Amazon |
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The suit alleges the e-retailer purposefully circumvented consumers’ privacy settings and benefitted from the information it accessed. One consumer claims she received mailers from pet supply companies after she purchased pet products on Amazon.com.
Amazon is the target of a class action lawsuit that alleges the e-retailer violated consumers’ privacy by installing unauthorized cookies that gave it access to consumers’ personal information.
The suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle by two named plaintiffs, says Amazon in 2008 knowingly used fake codes to communicate its privacy policy to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser, which led the browser to accept cookies that would it otherwise would have blocked when consumers chose certain privacy settings.
The suit alleges that Amazon benefitted from the unauthorized cookies because the cookies provided Amazon with information that allowed it to customize the browsing experience to consumers’ tastes, which resulted in the affected consumers making more purchases from Amazon. The suit claims that Amazon shared this browsing information with other companies for advertising purposes, which violates Amazon’s stated privacy policy.
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