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  • 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
  • surveillance Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells Cory Doctorow
  • Technology This map shows where local police departments partner with Amazon's Ring Xeni Jardin
  • Business Amazon on Prime Day Strike: 'People who plan to attend the event on Monday are simply not informed' Xeni Jardin
  • security 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
  • amazon Amazon's being greasy about Alexa user data. Again. Seamus Bellamy
  • Business Why can't we see big companies' tax returns? Cory Doctorow
  • Business Amazon shows a 43% price difference in the same item shipped to the same address, but to a different account Cory Doctorow
  • Gadgets Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot surveillance device for children Cory Doctorow
  • Business Amazon's facial recognition fear crusade ramps up: now they're paying Facebook to show you pictures of suspected criminals to scare you into getting a surveillance doorbell Cory Doctorow
  • amazon New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording Cory Doctorow
  • scholarship Amazon's monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat Cory Doctorow
  • Business Amazon told to stop selling kids' school supplies that contain over 80 times the legal limit of lead Xeni Jardin
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