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Amazon denies basing own-brand strategy on sellers' data, lying to US Congress

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
  • 24 Apr 2020 05:29
  • 24 Apr 2020 05:29

Amazon.com has categorically denied claims that it used private data from individual sellers on its marketplace to launch competing products and that it subsequently lied to the US Congress about it.

“We strictly prohibit employees from using non-public, seller-specific data to determine which private label products to launch,” it said in

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Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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