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Amazon secretly tracked customers via their cellphones, lawsuit alleges

By Miles Cooper
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January 30, 2025
Amazon secretly tracked customers via their cellphones, lawsuit alleges
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Amazon secretly tracked customers via their cellphones, lawsuit alleges

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Ever really feel like your cellphone is listening to you? Like if you discuss one thing aloud, and immediately your internet browser serves you advertisements for what you had been speaking about?

Nicely, a lawsuit filed Wednesday towards Amazon alleges the e-commerce big has been utilizing customers telephones to get details about them. Whereas the category motion swimsuit filed in a San Francisco district court docket would not precisely allege Amazon is utilizing telephones to hearken to them, it does accuse the corporate of utilizing telephones to trace folks.

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The lawsuit, in keeping with Reuters, alleges Amazon did this via Amazon Advertisements SDK, code supplied to app builders that was then embedded of their apps. By gaining “backdoor access” to folks’s telephones, Amazon was allegedly capable of acquire timestamped geolocation knowledge about the place customers stay, work, store and go to.

This knowledge allegedly included delicate data like non secular affiliation, sexual orientation, and well being points.

The lawsuit, which was filed by Felix Kolotinsky of San Mateo, accuses Amazon of utilizing telephones to trace customers’ actions after which promoting the info it collects. The lawsuit is searching for $5 billion in damages

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