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Premise:
A person wants to buy things on Amazon while staying anonymous. These items are physical goods that will need to be picked up by said person at some point.
Claims:
1) Amazon offers the Amazon Locker service, which when combined with a pseudonymous account could theoretically provide some anonymity.
2) You can buy Amazon gift cards for cash almost everywhere and use them at Amazon.
3) Wherever you buy a gift card, there is probably a camera watching.
4) In each Locker location there are definitely cameras watching.
5) Facial recognition software is ubiquitous, and Amazon can easily afford to buy the necessary data from Facebook, for example.
6) With cheap storage, camera frames can be stored indefinitely, especially by Amazon.
Main questions:
Basically, what is the good OpSec for anonymous Amazon purchases? Is Locker a decent option? If so, what precautions should be made?
Interesting, ancillary questions:
1) How long are the images probably stored?
2) How likely is it that Amazon is identifying each customer as soon as they walk into the store? Seems like a good idea to me if I were Amazon. Watch where each customer goes, what they look at, what they have done before, how a new set of marketing affects their behavior, etc.
3) How much of this information is easily and immediately accessible to LE for their casual perusal? Is there a firehose of info coming out of Amazon?
A person wants to buy things on Amazon while staying anonymous. These items are physical goods that will need to be picked up by said person at some point.
Claims:
1) Amazon offers the Amazon Locker service, which when combined with a pseudonymous account could theoretically provide some anonymity.
2) You can buy Amazon gift cards for cash almost everywhere and use them at Amazon.
3) Wherever you buy a gift card, there is probably a camera watching.
4) In each Locker location there are definitely cameras watching.
5) Facial recognition software is ubiquitous, and Amazon can easily afford to buy the necessary data from Facebook, for example.
6) With cheap storage, camera frames can be stored indefinitely, especially by Amazon.
Main questions:
Basically, what is the good OpSec for anonymous Amazon purchases? Is Locker a decent option? If so, what precautions should be made?
Interesting, ancillary questions:
1) How long are the images probably stored?
2) How likely is it that Amazon is identifying each customer as soon as they walk into the store? Seems like a good idea to me if I were Amazon. Watch where each customer goes, what they look at, what they have done before, how a new set of marketing affects their behavior, etc.
3) How much of this information is easily and immediately accessible to LE for their casual perusal? Is there a firehose of info coming out of Amazon?
