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Does this mean Amazon can mine Netflix's data to improve their Prime Video services?


Customer data is sacrosanct within Amazon. Cannot touch it without the customer’s consent.

source: I work for Amazon Web Services.


Amazon already showed its hand at maliciousness when it blackballed all chromecasts from stores, including 3rd party sellers. I don't put suddenly blackballing netflix beyond amazon's consideration. Amazon is cutthroat with public customers, corporate customers, and with its own employees. I think netflix is stupid to put more eggs in the vulture's nest.

In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that at the first opportunity where the lawyers agree it is a usable hole, they'll try to kill netflix through denying it service. Taking out netflix for a week or two while the engineers rebuild the backends with a different provider would be excellent for amazon's video division.


There is explicit policy inside AWS to not access any user data.


And Sodden is wrong. The government is not collecting your data.


Different scenarios. Netflix could sue Amazon for breach of contract if there were evidence of them mining their data.


AWS is a gigantic cash cow for Amazon now. If they were caught with their hands in a competitor's cookie jar the fallout would cost them in the billions. They probably wouldn't risk it, but this is just me hypothesizing.


No, but they can probably look at how Netflix is utilizing AWS and make that better.


I would safely assume this data will be encrypted and "anonymized" to minimize the risk of Amazon using this data.




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