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28 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I’m seeing several instances lately of @awscloud just handing customer information over to third parties without consent or notification.
Folks are asking for examples. First up, both my CFO and business partner received this last week.
Next, a program I'm involved in with AWS passed out a "benefit" to all participants from a third party. We were opted in to *all* of their marketing communications. I'm partial to the Italian option myself.
This was earlier this month.
I just want to be very clear here: for a subset of @awscloud customers, the fact that they're customers at all is considered confidential information.

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