That’s the almost right page.
At least in the USA, if you scroll down close to the bottom there’s another not very obvious section labeled “about me” w a one sentence explanation. Click or expand and click that to go to the actual “about me” page we’re discussing.
If it’s not there, that’s probably due to EU regulations.
Yeah, there’s no such “About Me” button at the German preferences page, so I think it must be a regional difference.
Nothing too shocking on my Amazon page. They have surmised that I have a cat, enjoy cooking, prefer streaming entertainment to physical media, own a desktop computer, know what brands I tend to buy for work apparel and undergarments, live alone, and “observe Jewish religious practices”.
At least they didn’t tell me I have no ass. 
I found that profile interesting, but not surprising.
There’s a few other things but it’s all clearly from what I’ve purchased from Amazon over the years. It’s no more (or less) creepy or bizarre than what my employer (big box store) tracks and actually the “assumptions” are better. I really don’t have an issue with what they have on me, and like that there is now a mechanism for tweaking it manually.
Could such tracking become creepy? Sure. It’s yet another thing to keep an eye on these days.
::: makes note to order more eyes :::
Also nice that that they give you the option to enter clothing sizes, preferences for your pet(s), and some other things if you want to do so. If you don’t want to you don’t have to.
I’m not seeing a cause for outrage here, unless you would get upset someone you buy from is keeping notes on you. I’ve got news for those people - keeping a profile on customers is nothing new, it predates the modern era by centuries. Old style it would be hand-written notes. Heck, there are probably examples of that sort of thing on clay tablets in cuneiform wedge writing.
Reminds of the guy at work trying to buy alcohol who didn’t want to show us his ID for the age requirement thing because he didn’t want the store giving his information to the government. Um… it’s a government issued ID, the government already has that information.
User is likely Argus Panoptes.
Nevermind
Sheesh hopefully not one of those obstreperous cockatoos. Like Buster.
Our Amazon profile is reasonably accurate and benign, although it does think we have a school-age kid (likely because my wife buys school supplies for her classroom) and that we’re into pro wrestling (because our nephew is, and we’ve bought him presents). Other than that the only oddish thing is that it has decided that we are exclusively interested in Schlage for door security hardware, based on the one time we bought Schlage for door security hardware.
I guess we order cat stuff pretty exclusively from Chewy, because Amazon doesn’t seem to know we have cats.
Update on this. She stole a car (in Wisconsin) and was arrested in Illinois.
Court filings said Jones told police she snuck in with students on the morning of Sept. 24, went through security and walked around the school. Jones then went to the office – where she overheard staff talking about a substitute teaching company – said she was a substitute teacher with that company and signed the substitute teacher sign-in sheet.
Court filings said students told investigators Jones used profane and lewd language, racial slurs, made sexual comments to students – and also organized students by race and gender. Students also said Jones started playing rap music very loud and “dissed” kids for their weight, race, looks and money. She also asked if any students had a vape or marijuana because the class was “so f—ing lame and annoying.”
She managed to “teach” two classes before other teachers got wind of it and pulled her out.
This district is placing the blame on the school office, which sounds like it’s probably the right people to blame.
Her lawyer is saying it’s a mental health issue and she was off her meds, which, at least to me, sounds pretty plausible.
Michael Cerniglia, Jones’ defense attorney, said during bond arguments that Jones “manages bipolar disorder and was experiencing an acute, manic episode caused by delayed home prescription delivery, and was off her meds during the time these allegations allegedly took place.”
The thing is, it really isn’t very hard to become an actual substitute teacher. Here in Ohio, the only hard requirement is a bachelor’s degree, and I don’t think they look too closely at anything else. If you’re really incompetent, you might not stay a substitute teacher for very long (districts can take individual subs off of their lists), but you could legitimately get in a few days, especially if you work multiple districts.
I totally see your point.
But perhaps what he meant was “I want to buy booze anonymously. I don’t want my booze purchases reported to the government under my name. Yes, the government knows all about my DL. But they don’t know I’m here buying this bottle of booze now until you tell them you sold this bottle and also tell then whose DL it was bought under.”
Now the idea that the “government” is tracking booze purchases by individuals is kinda nutty. Unless perhaps it’s a condition of his parole not to drink. Or a condition of him keeping his license after a DUI or three.
None of my business. (Well… don’t want drunks driving, but I think you know what I mean here)
Also, as part of another job I do around the store I have access to the raw data from the registers. Our registers really do keep ONLY date of birth and that it was checked.
I just find it weird this guy was so very worried about that. I contrast it with the two young gents from Saudi Arabia who, their first couple of weeks purchasing items from the store, bought only bacon, ham, other pork products, and copious amounts of both vodka and Jack Daniels. I knew they were Saudi because they used their passports for the age check. I mean, if anyone is going to be concerned about a government checking up on them you’d think it would be Saudis but, again, not my business. After the newness of forbidden “fruit” wore off their diets started conforming to something a bit more conventional.
I wasn’t suggesting it was your business as cashier. But you are the input point for whatever bureaucratic reporting systems the government mandates and your employer complies with. You know it’s DOB only, and I fully believe you. Evidently that guy had a different opinion.
It is conceivable that a sufficiently nanny state, or an “all surveillance all the time” state would track such things. Today it’s paranoid fantasy. In a few years?
They must do a background check, no?
Oh, right, that too. I’m not sure precisely what level of background malfeasance is disqualifying.
They were probably seeing it as an opportunity to finally be out from under the gaze of their government.
Sam’s Club uses AI to generate product photos for its website, winds up turning Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies into tacos.
The specific outrage was it telling the user mentioned in the article that she had “flat buttocks”.
That reminds me of GLaDOS’s recipe for cake. I hadn’t realized that Valve was that prescient.
As of now it’s still live on the Sam’s Club website, though you’ll need to scroll down the gallery on the left to find it.
(And who the hell puts cherry tomatoes on tacos anyway?)