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Amazon: The Enabling Stalker I Just Can't Quit

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Like any consumer these days, I am a BIG fan of Amazon . And with Christmas coming soon, my doorstep will be laden daily with boxes and boxes wrapped in their familiar blue tape. Wishlists, shopping carts, and gift receipts, oh my! This will be me up until December 23rd:  Created with Bitmoji Created with Bitmoji And then after December 25th.... Created with Bitmoji  ........except without all the cute butterflies and with more tears and regret. So with all the spending I (and most of you) plan to do with Amazon, I thought I should look into just what they do with all that personal information they collect. We've all perused Amazon for that perfect dress, or birthday gift, or baby shower present, and then 24 hours later, we are getting ads for that exact same thing on our Facebook feeds. What the what?! Just what kind of stalker is Amazon? And why do they need so much information just to send me a new set of headphones, a knee brace, and a bottle o