Wirecutter: “Over the past two months, Amazon has made high-profile bids to buy iRobot, a robot-vacuum brand, and One Medical, a health-care tech company. It was announced last week that both acquisitions are being reviewed by the Federal Trade Commission, which will draw the process out. If the deals go through, these two companies will join the likes of Ring, Whole Foods, MGM Studios, Eero, and countless others under the Amazon umbrella. Beyond the immediate questions (uh, does this mean Bezos now has access to my room layouts and medical history?), you may be wondering about the privacy implications. These types of acquisitions tend to highlight a certain type of dread: You might have been okay with a company that provides one specific type of product or service having some data about you, but you might be less okay with the idea of one gigantic company (that makes nearly every device imaginable) having that same data. The unfortunate truth in these cases is that nearly every privacy policy stipulates that when one company acquires another, they also get any data collected prior to the acquisition, and as a product owner you can’t do much about that. What you can do is learn about what kind of data Amazon now has access to. Let’s break down both of these acquisitions to take a closer look…”