U.S. lawmakers call for privacy legislation after Reuters report on Amazon
The cartoon playing out in the media once again reminds me of Gell-Mann Amnesia because I used to work at Alexa. The lengths that they go to for preserving consumer privacy actually seemed absurd to me. Alexa engineers and applied scientists&#x27; lives would have been much easier if they didn&#x27;t take customer privacy -- and their right to request and delete their data -- so seriously.<p>Yes, they are lobbying against regulation. But that&#x27;s because no business wants to have to deal with 50 different laws in 50 states. They&#x27;re saying let&#x27;s have one federal regulation so it&#x27;s easier to comply. It&#x27;s not that they don&#x27;t care about privacy -- they very much do. In fact, all these large companies want regulation because it strengthens their moat. A startup won&#x27;t have the resources to comply with such regulations on Day 1. They just want it to be reasonable because dealing with different state-level regulations is too much.