Amazon Sued For Wiretapping Drivers’ Closed Facebook Groups
Amazon sued for secretly monitoring workers confidential postings in their closed Facebook groups.
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France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent
Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120 million) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35 million (~$42 million) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the penalty notices issued on December 10.
Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech ever tested by Washington Post
In an anonymized way, it can data mine the heart rate, activity, sleep and tone patterns of Halo owners, using the information to tailor its health algorithms and learn about human bodies.
Secret Amazon Reports Expose Company Spying on Labor, Environmental Groups
Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on workers and its extensive monitoring of labor unions and […]
Amazon faces backlash over using Sidewalk for neighborhood networks
Amazon customers are being automatically opted in to Sidewalk, a feature set to launch later this year that the company […]
Police stream live video from Ring doorbells using third-party tech
A handful of police departments across the US are using software that lets them register the locations of people’s home […]
Amazon Faces Allegations It Harvested Sensitive Voice Data
Amazon is being hit with a class-action suit alleging that the tech giant’s severs are storing biometric voice data from […]
German lawsuit accuses Amazon of breaking EU privacy law
Amazon faces a lawsuit in Germany over claims it has continued to transfer data to the United States using an […]
Amazon’s Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy
Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection. […]
Amazon aims to improve biometric features and privacy with new edge AI chip in Echo devices
A new processor in Amazon’s latest generation of Echo devices are giving the Alexa assistant intriguing capabilities that the company […]
Amazon introduces a way to pay with your palm
Amazon is introducing a new biometric device that will allow shoppers to pay at Amazon Go stores using their palm. […]
Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data
Reading a book on a Kindle sends Amazon a lot of data about reading habits. How fast pages are turned, […]