Happy Birthday To Amazon, And Its Data Mining. July 26, 2014 8:34 AM ET. ... But we might use Amazon's anniversary as a way to mark how much buying and selling has changed in just 20 years; ...

The utopian perspective is that consumers see their data has value and don’t provide it to companies freely but, as a species, we are probably far too lazy to do that.

The European Union's antitrust arm will evaluate Amazon's role as both a retailer and a marketplace for others. One focus will be on Amazon's use of data collected from third-party sellers.

Data Mining the Amazon. From a Suggest a Topic entry from FC Now reader Gemma Teed, we find a Guardian article about the work of artist Angie Waller, ...

New Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is facing questions about how the company plans to use the data it gathers from its newly installed palm-reading scanners in some of the company’s retail outlets. A ...