From: Steve Frazier [SMTP:sfrazier@amazon.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2000 11:30
To: Simon Davies
Subject: Privacy Act communication with Amazon

Dear Simon,

When we spoke last week, it was my understanding that you were going to send to us the recent communication you'd mailed, requesting a further invesigation of our practices, to the UK Data Protection Commissioner. Could you let me know when we might be receiving this?

Secondly, your claims that Amazon.co.uk has admitted to violations of the UK Data Protection act continue to reverberate in the press, as these accusations (to my knowledge, unfounded) continued to circulate. Could you provide any substantiation of these claims that we've made such an admission? If not, we'd like to seek retractions from the various media outlets that have repeated this accusation.

Following up on our discussions last week about a meeting -- Michael Miller and I won't be able to stop by before Christmas. We will, however, like to arrange a meeting in January and will be in touch with you about that. Meanwhile, as you and I discussed last week, we'll consider that your request for customer information remains on hold, as we explained in our letter to you, until we have the meeting and receive further clarification of what you're seeking.

Best,

Steve Frazier

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Steve Frazier
Managing Director
Amazon.co.uk