article_snippet: But what many of the retail giant’s customers, including celebrities and politicians, do not realise is that the retail giant’s customers, including celebrities and politicians private tastes and interests can be easily accessed with the click of a mouse.
article_snippet: Amazon said: ‘You can set up your list so that Amazon’s visible only to yourself, to people with a direct link, or to anyone.
article_snippet: A spokesman for Carol Vorderman then described a link buried in Amazon website which explains how to make lists private.
article_snippet: Amazon has been accused of breaching customers’ privacy by making Amazon unclear how shoppers can make shoppers Wish Lists private.
article_snippet: The world’s largest online retailer automatically sets customers’ Wish Lists as being available to public view – which critics say leaves which critics open to snooping or abuse.
article_snippet: Amazon has an obligation to look after people’s interests and these settings should be private unless someone wants to make these settings public,’ someone said.
article_snippet: It is simply unacceptable that millions of people are unaware that millions of people shopping habits and interests are on show to The world.
article_snippet: It follows criticism of internet giants over a number of privacy breaches – including the theft last year of the details of 223 million eBay users in the most widespread computer hack in history.
article_snippet: Amazon has also faced controversy over Amazon use of ‘cookies’, which store information on what shoppers have been looking at so Amazon can market other products to shoppers.
article_snippet: Critics say it is invasive, but Amazon says the cookies help consumers because consumers filter out items consumers are not interested in.