[kache_]

Amazon probably had to comply with giving up the corporate monitoring data most likely.

[filmgirlcw]

Not only that but if she’s in finance, the monitoring requirements for what you do on work machines is even higher. And as a child comment said, Amazon complied willingly. Nothing forced at all. It doesn’t want insider-trading either.

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

Probably complied gladly. They don't want folks insider trading either.

[fnord77]

the search query would be TLS encrypted. Amazon snoopware wouldn't be able to see it

[sillysaurusx]

Snoopware is often installed on the laptop itself, not merely listening in the middle.

[filmgirlcw]

She worked in finance...I’m sure every single keystroke was logged in addition to any TLS bypasses.

[mimsee]

bypassed by a TLS cert installed by employer. also not that hard for amazon to develop a browser extension and force feed it through group policy

[ratata]

The query string is sent in plain-text in the URL parameters.

https://www.google.com/search?q=AMZN

[dboreham]

Which goes down a encrypted transport connection. The t in https.

[kraavi]

Corporate proxies MITM all https traffic