security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
amazon Amazon testing 'Orville' biometric tech that scans your hands to pay at Whole Foods, stores will use it starting early 2020 Xeni Jardin
Business Amazon pays happy warehouse workers to tweet about how happy they are whenever someone complains about warehouse conditions Cory Doctorow
amazon Prior to Amazon acquisition, Ring offered "swag" to customers who snitched on their neighbors Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow
surveillance Cop says Amazon told him they had "partnered" with 200 US police forces to sell and tap into Ring surveillance doorbells Cory Doctorow
Funny Man interviewed at Amazon, didn't get the job, but they used his photo on their jobs site David Pescovitz
crime Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon on Prime Day Strike: 'People who plan to attend the event on Monday are simply not informed' Xeni Jardin
crime A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow
Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow
Business Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow
