Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/27/21402493/amazon-halo-band-health-fitness-body-scan-tone-emotion-activity-sleep
Wait, Amazon’s New Wearable Needs to See Me in My Underwear? https://www.pcmag.com/news/wait-amazons-new-wearable-needs-to-see-me-in-my-underwear
Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data https://nullsweep.com/kindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data/
Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/
Alexa hack granted attackers access to an Echo user’s smart home network https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/16/alexa-hack-granted-attackers-access-to-an-echo-users-smart-home-network
Police Are Monitoring Black Lives Matter Protests With Ring Doorbell Data and Drones https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-ring-drones-monitor-protests-1523856
Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/tiktok-surveillance-social-media-trump
Amazon shares your private info unless you do these steps https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/07/30/tips-control-privacy-and-manage-advertising-preferences-amazon/5531905002/
The CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are set to testify before Congress in a historic antitrust hearing next week. Here’s what’s at stake for each company. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-amazon-facebook-antitrust-hearing-congress-what-to-expect-2020-7
A former Amazon exec who has called for the company to be broken up said the tech industry is the ‘leading candidate’ for anti-monopoly regulators to target https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-executive-tim-bray-tech-companies-should-broken-up-2020-7
Amazon Backtracks From Demand That Employees Delete TikTok https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/technology/tiktok-amazon-security-risk.html
Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/amazons-ring-enables-over-policing-efforts-some-americas-deadliest-law-enforcement
Why Amazon will temporarily stop providing its facial recognition software to police https://www.hto-studios.xyz/articles/why-amazon-will-temporarily-stop-providing-its-fac/