Amazon's 'About You' section guesses oddly specific details about shoppers
theverge.comI checked mine and it was pretty accurate. Nothing very concerning.
I checked mine on Amazon Japan's site. While it had some categories: height, weight, age, fit attributes, and shoe sizes: nothing was populated.
I can only guess that there's hidden information that indicates I'm extremely privacy conscious. But it could be possible that information is populated by cookies which I don't allow.
You need to click “About you” at the bottom of that screen to view personalized details
I'm seeing the same, various categories with no information filed. It's the only instance of "about you" found on the page.
Mine says I maintain enterprise networks and I sometimes work on stuff around the house.
The only thing it got wrong is Household = 1 Adult. I live with my 5 adult sons.
Based on some of the entries in there (like a list of the test equipment in my office), it's clearly scraping my public Reddit posts.
Have you deliberately connected your account?
For me, it was all clearly based on Amazon purchases from the last couple of years. I expected to be appalled by the privacy implications but, actually, it seemed fine to me - pretty much what you'd expect if you asked an LLM to summarise my recent orders.