"Don't write the embarrassing parts down" is probably SOP for these sorts of things.

But honestly, even from a non-nefarious motives perspective, that's one of the things that Slack and similar logged-forever-use-us-as-your-knowledge-base conversation tools scare me on. The risk of someone saying something that could be taken wrongly by a journalist or a court one day even if not meant that way goes up the more conversations you record between the more people.

As far as data goes, amazon only really cares about the stuff you buy. Their advertising segment is growing, but even then most of it is targeted towards things sold on Amazon.

An observant person knows that in any corporations there are things that are not to be written or implied, some are implied are others are written.

"We should enter soon into the home appliance market" can mean "We have already privately discuss that we need to enter the IT equipment at home so we can gather home consumer habits at home not observable through purchase, credit card data and internet tracking".

It requires a very detailed investigation of written documents, chats, management actions, private accounts, cross checks and all to really understand what such documents mean.

Who knows? Let's say they wanted to do some shady shit, is writing an email(with the possibility of discovery) on that, is the only way to go about it?

Two things can be true at the same time.

I don't know that we can infer that from this. They refer to a pre-existing (but here unstated) rationale for wanting to be in the camera market, which could include that it fits with some broader data strategy. I'm not saying that's true per se, but just that I don't think this really goes into much interesting detail about why they wanted to enter this market.

No, that was just bonus

Well Amazon are interested in breaking down of social cohesion and trust because it reduces the risk of unionization. Perhaps it increases crime rates or the perception of crime rates as well, also a win for a home protection business.

Your naivete is endearing somehow.

My view of corporate culture at that level is that they all know what they're after, it does not have to be said. They use politically correct language like growing their home protection segment but they all know that they will use any data available to make an extra profit.

At the end of the day a business only has one goal, growth.

> because they think home protection is a good market

it does say a lot, however, about the current state of community policing, the rise of private "neighborhood patrol" security services, gated communities, economic disparities between upper middle class and poor, in north american society as a whole.

and what trends that investors in home security technology startups see it going in.