Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging; and more!

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Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging: A system's purpose is what it does. 3/

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

Mar 27

@Amazon

Sometimes, the best way to understand a failure is to contrast it with a success. Take @Amazon, whose avowed "relentlessness" created next-day Prime delivery and AWS, with its power to instantaneously, continuously emit "buckets" of data. 1/

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Amazon boasts endlessly of its efficiency, ease of use and speed - so whenever you find Amazon being inefficient, hard to use and slow, it's reasonable to assume that this is a deliberate choice. Like, say, when Amazon is giving you the data it has collected on you. 3/

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