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Amazon Wishlist can expose your address to strangers
2 Comments · Posted by lance in Internet, Online Privacy, Personal Privacy, Tracking
Amazon Customer’s Privacy Exposed
In theory, your Amazon wish list should allow people to buy you gifts, but should not reveal anything but the list of items you want.
Evidently, if you buy something for someone off their list, you can then see the delivery address in the order reports in your account.
Solution is to remove the delivery address from your list. Your friends and family would have to enter the delivery address manually, but one hopes that they already know it. A good description of the process is in the above linked article.
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Michael · August 20, 2011 at 12:14 am
If you delete the adress it might delete the whole purpose of the wish list since also people use it many times a way ofdonation. I agree with you though, it is not good. Amazon should mask the adress and just make the user confirm that he wants the books to be shipped to a certain person.
Author comment by lance · August 20, 2011 at 6:32 am
For donations to organizations I agree that the address should probably stay on. Since it is an organization it is much less likely that the address of the org is sensitive or in need of protection.