Liz

I hadn't seen that assessment of the situation, so thanks for sharing a well-written piece that addresses how this could have happened. I've only seen stuff that could basically be boiled down to "this is an outrage," and while it definitely is, I don't really need help filling that in. I think it's always possible that someone within the company decided to do a bit of moral vigilantism, which would go beyond incompetence and into malice, but as long as this wasn't someone implementing Amazon's policy, I wouldn't be too upset about that. Hiring processes can't necessarily weed out crazy people who will use access to protected data irresponsibly, so if it was just one person doing what they thought was best, that wouldn't be so bad.

I think it'll be pretty interesting how transparent Amazon is about fixing this problem. Normally, big companies will only use the vaguest language about their internal goings on, but I think that might make this situation much worse for them.