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Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says (apnews.com)

submitted 9 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022” despite instructions it gave Amazon not to do so.

In a prepared statement Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle called the FTC’s claim “baseless and irresponsible.”

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[–] kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The FTC didn't use Signal, Amazon did though for internal communications. When FTC started their investigation, Amazon quickly used the features of signal to delete all their internal communications because they were too spicy for the public and the FTC.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would have thought the FTC would know how to save the conversations.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Oh... I somehow understood the article as if Amazon used Signal to communicate with the FTC... Yeah that makes more sense...