How to stop Amazon from collecting user data: Few Simple steps | TechKnow World

How to stop Amazon from collecting user data: Few Simple steps | TechKnow World

Stop giving unnecessary data to any Online shopping website or any other application and only you should have that right to stop Amazon from giving unnecessary data. 

Highlights:

• Amazon is the world's best online shopping website so it's services in many countries.

• The company runs only on the basis of collecting user data more and more.

• Even your voice commands are recorded by Alexa and it works as user data for the company.

Now Amazon has built and established his successful business around the globe and online marketplace too. Have you ever thought about how this company becomes so successful in a specific time period? One of the main reasons is collecting user data. This is so surprising to find out that many elements are visible to the public from our Amazon profile data.

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You Amazon provides contains your biodata, shopping list, and any social links. So you must need to protect and make it private. As much data possible to protect, you should protect it. In this article, we will be going to talk about how to make Amazon profile private and also how to delete voice from Alexa from the Amazon server. 

Make sure, Is your Amazon profile private?

Follow these simple steps to know how you can hide or control data that are visible to others and also what's data are visible to others?

1. Firstly you have to visit Amazon.in and hit on the account button.

2. Click on the profile.

3. After opening the profile page, click on edit your public profile

4. You can see now that your all personal information remains public on Amazon. It is recommended to remove all data from privacy.

5. Click on privacy settings then click on hide all activity on your public profile then click on the Save button.

6. Hit on the Back to the public profile button. You can find what others see to check your public profile.

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Make your Amazon wish list private

We all know that Amazon has two lists one is a wish list and the other is the Shopping list. If these lists are public, then anyone can see your items by searching your name. So always keep your wish list private. 

Follow these steps to keep your wish list private: 

1. Follow the same steps to open your Amazon profile. 

2. Open your wish list.

3. Hit at more button and click on the manage list.

4. Now, click on the save changes button and you're done. 

Hide your Amazon browsing history

Your browsing history is the only medium that Amazon knows about your interest means that you searched for it. All these things are stored in the Amazon database and using these data Amazon hit ads so you need to turn this off. 

Just follow these steps to do so:

1. Visited Amazon site, click on account and list then hit recommendation. 

2. Now, click on your browsing history.

3. Next, hit the manage history and then click on remove all items from view and lastly disable turn browsing history.

4. One more thing you need to disable personalized ads. For disabling this, go to account and hit the advertising preference.

5. Next page, click on Do not personalize ads from Amazon for this Internet Browser.

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Delete Alexa voice recordings

You are surprised to know that, Amazon's Alexa records each and every word command in its database and it works as user data for them. Whether you are using the Echo device or mobile phone. So just follow these simple steps to stop Alexa to collect user data: 

1. Firstly, you have to download the Amazon Alexa application from Google Play Store. 

2. Then, Sign in to your Amazon official account.

3. After Sign in, click on more and go to settings.

5. Click and select Alexa Privacy and click at Manage your Alexa data.

5. After opening the next page, go down and disable the Use of voice recordings and also click on Use messages to Improve Transcriptions.

6. Click at Review voice history, and delete all existing voice data. 

7. For better results, Enable deletion by the voice that helps to delete voice data by giving a simple voice command.

That's it, now you are done and you surely stop Amazon from collecting user data. 

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