Search engine users may land on a website that sells various Amazon.co.uk products, is hosted on the “Amazon Data Services Ireland DUB2 Datacentre” network, but wrongfully infers association with me or my business. Specifically, on each such page, the title begins with “www.anta.net”; several links carry the www.anta.net site name (some of those links actually point to www.anta.net, while others point to pages on the Amazon site); and the anta.net favicon image — the eye — is used as an illustration. According to Google, there are approximately 113 such pages.
There has been a cooperation agreement between Amazon.co.uk and myself. However, I terminated that contract in 2007 because of a non-payment issue. Amazon.co.uk has since settled their debt, but they also operate the aforementioned site, despite several requests to cease.
Similarly, Amazon.co.uk also continues to host “Thor Kottelin’s Wish List”, regardless of the fact that I terminated my personal Amazon account simultaneously with the other agreements between me and them. Since the wish list misrepresentation affects me as a private person, I have requested that the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK take enforcement action against Amazon.co.uk.
In short, if any Amazon web page alludes to a connection with me, my business, or an anta.net website, that implication is — at the least — outdated.
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