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.
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.
Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on workers and its extensive monitoring of labor unions and […]
Amazon customers are being automatically opted in to Sidewalk, a feature set to launch later this year that the company […]
A handful of police departments across the US are using software that lets them register the locations of people’s home […]
Amazon is being hit with a class-action suit alleging that the tech giant’s severs are storing biometric voice data from […]
Amazon faces a lawsuit in Germany over claims it has continued to transfer data to the United States using an […]
Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection. […]
A new processor in Amazon’s latest generation of Echo devices are giving the Alexa assistant intriguing capabilities that the company […]
Amazon is introducing a new biometric device that will allow shoppers to pay at Amazon Go stores using their palm. […]
Reading a book on a Kindle sends Amazon a lot of data about reading habits. How fast pages are turned, […]
The companies are backing bills in more than a dozen states that would legalize the devices. Some bills would block […]