Amazon’s handling of employees and use of sellers’ data for private labels is being probed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency is probing how Amazon disclosed some details of its business practices.

Highlights

Authority SEC has asked Amazon’s Executive to handover emails and communications 
E-commerce giant platform Amazon has been accused of exploiting internet data
Amazon has denied the accusations, US authority imposed

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The US authority Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is probing the method of Amazon Company how handles employee disclosure on the use of third party sellers’ data purportedly to boost its own private own business, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Amazon’s several executives and officers were asked for emails and communication details by the US authority, the federal regulator’s enforcement. People familiar with the matter were being asked for the details. Amazon has not immediately responded to a request for comment, a spokesperson for the SEC declined to say anything about the report.

The e-commerce company Amazon has also been accused previously of kicking off the product it sells on its website and it also used the internal data to promote its merchandise at the expense of other sellers.

After the release of several media reports, the company Amazon launched an internal investigation to review whether the employee of the company used the seller’s data to promote Amazon’s private labels business.

As per the report, the company has denied giving any such document related to the inquiry, made earlier or not allowed to provide the findings to a congressional committee at earlier investigated.

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