Civil rights groups call on Amazon to cut ties with police, shut down its ‘surveillance empire’
‘Amazon is dragging us toward a world dominated by total corporate surveillance.’
On Jun 11, 2021 by Mikael Thalen
Capitol rioter wanted to bomb Amazon data centers to bring down the internet
The Texas man wanted to ‘kill off about 70% of the internet.’
On Jun 10, 2021 by Mikael Thalen
Why Amazon’s indefinite ban on facial recognition isn’t a real win for privacy rights
The technology poses problems regardless.
On Jun 10, 2021 by Matthew B. McGrath
What is Fastly, and how did it break the internet this morning?
A number of large popular websites were impacted by the outage.
On Jun 8, 2021 by Andrew Wyrich
Video shows Amazon driver punching 67-year-old woman who reportedly called her a ‘b*tch’
In a statement, Amazon said: ‘This does not reflect the high standards we have for drivers who deliver our packages.’
On Jun 7, 2021 by P.J. West
Amazon says it supports weed legalization, will relax testing for new hires
‘Given where state laws are moving across the U.S., we’ve changed course.’
On Jun 2, 2021 by Mikael Thalen
Tech newsletter: Amazon’s ‘dystopian’ kiosk for tired employees
Here is a look at tech and politics news from the last week.
On Jun 1, 2021 by Andrew Wyrich
Amazon wants to automatically share your Wi-Fi with strangers, here’s how to opt-out
The service automatically starts in one week. Here’s how to opt-out.
‘Something is broken in America’: People feel sorry for Amazon driver caught screaming from truck
While some commenters joked about the video, others were more sympathetic to the driver’s apparent distress.
On May 30, 2021 by Kahron Spearman
‘This is some next level dystopian sh*t’: Amazon rolls out kiosk for overwhelmed employees to use
The phone booth-sized apparatus will let employees ‘focus on their mental and emotional well-being.’
On May 27, 2021 by Mikael Thalen
UPS worker exposes customer’s ‘unreasonable request’ in TikTok horror story
‘Nope, we don’t do that, and we’ve never done that.’
On May 20, 2021 by Kahron Spearman
This week in streaming: ‘Army of the Dead’ and Hacks’ walk into a bar
Plus: ‘The Underground Railroad’ and Lee Pace’s vaccine selfie.
On May 19, 2021 by Audra Schroeder
Amazon says it will continue to ban police use of facial recognition ‘until further notice’
Last year, the retail giant announced a one-year moratorium on police use of its technology.
On May 18, 2021 by Andrew Wyrich
‘I legitimately thought this was parody’: Josh Hawley uses 3 big tech platforms to hawk his anti-big tech book
The irony was not lost on many people.
On May 7, 2021 by Andrew Wyrich
Woman charged with hate crime after video shows her being racist toward Black Amazon driver
Her boyfriend allegedly blocked the Amazon driver’s vehicle so that he couldn’t leave.
On May 1, 2021 by Mikael Thalen
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