My ability to travel or get a loan don't change if I use my credit card to buy a dildo.

Some old communist sitting on the porch with a mobile phone taking pictures of my every move or picking my nose or crossing the street where I shouldn't doesn't stop my from buy train or plane tickets in the U.S.A.

Nope, not the same thing. China is doing Black Mirror-type crap every single day.

Alexa could have easily improved purchases by:
1. Tell the customer: "Your 'last consumable item' may be running low. The same item is available at the same or lower price through Amazon or much lower through one of our authorized suppliers with slower shipping. Would you like to re-order?"

(BUT NO! They never offered simple price comparison logic. WHAT THEY WANTED was blind subscriptions where they could increase the price without you knowing. Which is also why subscriptions will also fail.)

2. Customer asks: "Alexa, find me a list of items matching 'search term or product name' and save it to my wish list."

(BUT NO! They want to purchase done then and now. Why not give me, the customer, the opportunity to start research purchases before I'm ready to commit to buy but at the moment I think about it.)

3. Customer asks: "Alexa, buy 'prior product purchase or wish list item' when: a) price drops by 10% or b) price is at or below $xx"

There are probably 50 ways they can increase sales, but greed and deceptive practices are preferred it seems.

I think most are missing the point about what this truly represents. First and foremost you have the fact that it happened at all! Essentially, we were betrayed by own of our own. A U.S. citizen behaved in a manner that may also be seen as either a betrayer or champion of our public trust. That single person can be considered the only "traitor", and the degree of his crime will be determined by the courts. But he was able to do so with great ease! Why are we not putting those security processes surrounding this information, and the people in charge of it, under even greater scrutiny than Wikileaks or this individual? Let's look in our house before we criticize any one else's backyard. Next we have the nature of the leak to consider. This was all done by the clicking of key strokes. There was no black-ops, mission impossible-style infiltration of the Pentagon. This was done my one misguided boy with a computer. He had no vast resources of Chinese hackers or Swedish anarchists. Information, and the ability to control it, is going to become increasingly more difficult and therefore easily accessible to anyone who wants it. And that will range from a private individuals social security number to a politicians dirty laundry, or the diplomatic communications of a nation. This egg is never going to be unscrambled, so everyone better get use to knowing more than they want and being responsible for all that they know.