Amazon Wins Fight to Keep Customer Records Private

Yay! The courts have ruled that Amazon does not have to give up customer’s personal information and details of what they purchased over the last seven years.

Amazon has provided the state tax collectors with anonymized information about which items were shipped to which ZIP codes. But North Carolina threatened to sue if the retailer did not agree to divulge the names and addresses linked to each order--in other words, by providing personally identifiable information that could be used to collect additional use taxes that might be owed by state residents.

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