Surveillance Partners: Amazon Ring and Police Departments
By Michael Boldin The company has partnered with 400-500 departments – and provides direct access to surveillance footage through a special “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal,”…
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Amazon Is Becoming One Of America’s Biggest Military Giants
By Aaron Kesel Amazon is on its way to becoming one of the U.S. military’s biggest security giants, with a pending $10bn JEDI cloud computing…
Amazon Workers Protest After Woman Fired for Spending Extra Hour With Dying Relative
By John Vibes Employees of an Amazon delivery location in Sacramento, California are protesting the company’s decision to fire a worker who missed an hour…
Forget Facial Recognition: DHS’ New Database, HART, Also Uses Scars, Tattoos, and Your VOICE to ID You. And Amazon Is Storing All the Data.
By Daisy Luther These days, you can’t really go anywhere without encountering cameras. Going into a store? Chances are there are security cameras. Getting money…
FaceFirst and Amazon Want To Influence Facial Recognition Laws; Motorola Joins The Push For A Surveillance State
By Aaron Kesel FaceFirst is another company with something to lose if facial recognition regulation bans the technology. They have now entered the lobbying ring…
New Amazon Alexa Spy Products Include Glasses, Rings And Earbuds; Bezos Wants To Write Facial Recognition Laws
By Aaron Kesel Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, whom this writer has previously referred to as emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, wants to write his own…
Amazon to Install Microphones Into Rings and Glasses — They Aren’t Even The First
By B.N. Frank Wearable tech has become very common and oh so fashionable. But like all wireless “smart” devices, these products also collect personal data…
Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
By MassPrivateI It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that…
Amazon Reportedly Changed Search Algorithm To Favor More Profitable Products
By Tyler Durden After publishing a steady stream of scoops about Amazon’s anti-competitive tendencies, the Wall Street Journal on Monday dropped one of the biggest…
“Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” Follows the Money On How Much Big Tech Spends for Political Influence
By B.N. Frank Big Tech is showering American elected officials with more money than ever before AND with more lobbyists. Public watchdog group, Public Citizen,…
Tech Investor: Google And Amazon Use Smart Speakers For Mass Surveillance
By Mac Slavo Tech investor John Borthwick says that smart speakers from the like of Amazon and Google are being used for mass surveillance. Borthwick…
Five Concerns about Amazon Ring’s Deals with Police
By Matthew Guariglia More than 400 police departments across the country have partnered with Ring, tech giant Amazon’s “smart” doorbell program, to create a troubling…
Tesla Solar Panels Are Catching Fire. Amazon and Walmart Have Both Been Burned. Walmart Is Suing.
By B.N. Frank Solar panels that catch fire are not desirable or eco-friendly. What’s bizarrely coincidental is that these combustible panels are being made by…
Inside Amazon And Silicon Valley’s JEDI Mind Trick On The Pentagon
By Tyler Durden Over the past three years, the Department of Defense (DoD) acquiesced to an aggressive lobbying campaign by Silicon Valley to move its…
