| > What benefit does Amazon get out of delaying giving out this information? The same as the German police gets: the opportunity of checking if they actually are allowed to store the data they have on you. There are next to no audits on the big data warehouses... not of cops, not of corporations, not of enterprises that are a mixture between cops and corporations (cough Palantir), which means they will scoop up all data they can get their hands on, and keep it as they like (Europol is currently under fire for that one [1]). And only when people actually inquire on the data that the cops, Amazon or whatever else have on them, then they look if they are actually allowed to keep the data - if not, it gets quietly deleted. But as it's only a tiny fraction of the population that exercises their GDPR rights, the big data warehouses get away with keeping 99.999% of stuff they should not legally be allowed to keep. As for Amazon: they, for example, still have my orders from 2011 on their system, despite the legal mandate to keep these around being only for ten years [2]. There should be a legal requirement for all corporations and government agencies to send out a "data dump" to every citizen every year. People have absolutely no idea what troves of data exist about them. [1]: https://netzpolitik.org/2022/europol-eu-polizeibehoerde-laes... [2]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hgb/__257.html |