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Tuesday, January 7, 2020
… NSO Group refuted the report. Despite companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft commenting to the FT’s … The users actual voice! The information extracted from Amazon will undoubtedly give tremendous insights into the … a skill a recording of the query is sent to the user’s Amazon cloud account. The user specific request is processed …
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
… the course of criminal investigations e.g. via warrant to Amazon. Emotion and facial recognition can be applied to … your knowledge. We have written to (letters below): Amazon Apple Dropbox Facebook Fitbit Google Huawei … #cloudExtraction #protectMyData Twitter handles: @AmazonUK @Apple @AppleSupport …
Friday, December 6, 2019
… Health and Social Care has now released its contract with Amazon, regarding the use of NHS content by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant. The content of the contract is … this year the UK government announced a partnership with Amazon so that people would now be able to have their …
Friday, November 22, 2019
… sharing Government access Privacy invasion Surveillance Amazon Google Apple …
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
… the mystery. The police is hoping that the smart assistance Amazon Echo, known as Alexa, was accidentally activated and … bedroom … may be found on the server maintained by or for Amazon,” police argued and managed to obtain the recordings. … guardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/01/alexa-florida-death-witness-amazon-echo Journalist: Guardian staff What is Privacy …
Thursday, September 19, 2019
… be identified by their own name-space. As an example, Amazon Ads library root name-space/package is com.amazon.device.ads, this library shares the com.amazon package name with other Amazon libraries. So, at this …
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
… trackers for marketing purposes. Google, Facebook and Amazon trackers were present on many of the web pages we … the second most common third-party tracker after Google and Amazon Marketing Services is also one of the most common …
Monday, September 2, 2019
… from all the large tech companies - Google, Facebook, and Amazon - but also from data brokers, and AdTech companies, …
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
… includes Smart Tech, such as Nest, iKettle, Smart Barbie, Amazon Echo and others. In the UK, we have one of the … from internet services like Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, You Tube, all of which is traceable and …
Monday, August 12, 2019
… Project on Government Oversight revealed that in June 2018 Amazon pitched its Rekognition facial recognition system to … as a way to help them target or identify immigrants. Amazon has also marketed Rekognition to police departments, … tests have raised questions about its accuracy. Hundreds of Amazon workers protested by writing a letter to CEO Jeff …
Monday, August 12, 2019
… However, the patent shows that, like the systems in use in Amazon's cashier-less Go retail stores, retailers are …
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
… being transferred to servers based there, but is stored in Amazon data servers in the United States and Australia. What …
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
… done that - take for example companies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google. Accomplices to the same broken … see business models that deliberately run on losses (Uber, Amazon) in order to consolidate their position, kill …
Friday, July 12, 2019
… In 2009, Amazon Kindle readers were surprised to find that their … of George Orwell’s 1984 was missing from their devices. Amazon had remotely deleted these copies after it found out … vendor selling them did not own the rights to the books. Amazon refunded the cost of the books but told its readers …
Friday, July 12, 2019
… From 2014 to early 2017, Amazon used an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tool to … resumes and select qualified candidates, based on Amazon’s previous hiring decisions from a ten-year period; … rather than the most qualified candidates, because Amazon had hired predominantly male candidates in the past. …
Friday, July 12, 2019
… The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) used Rekognition, Amazon’s facial recognition software, to compare images of … false matches for women and people with darker skin. Amazon’s software misidentified 28 lawmakers as being the … of false matches. The ACLU’s study raises concerns that Amazon’s software will disproportionately subject women and …
Friday, July 12, 2019
… More than 450 Amazon employees delivered a letter to Jeff Bezos and other Amazon executives, demanding that the company immediately … making ethical decisions. The employees protested against Amazon allowing its technologies to be used for mass …
Friday, July 12, 2019
… Amazon shareholders rejected two non-binding proposals … These two proposals were presented to shareholders despite Amazon’s effort to stop the votes, which were thwarted by … The two proposals stemmed from research exposing biases in Amazon’s software, protests from artificial intelligence …
Friday, July 12, 2019
… Millions of people own smart home devices like the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot—equipped with the Alex cloud-based … have concerning implications for privacy rights. While, Amazon’s own policies promise that only the user and Amazon will listen to what those devices record, it was …
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
… Matt Hancock announced a partnership between the NHS and Amazon to use the NHS’s website content as the source for … as “Alexa, how do I treat a migraine?” While we welcome Amazon’s use of a trusted source of information for medical … about the nature and the implications of this partnership. Amazon is a company with a worrying track record when it …
Friday, June 28, 2019
… of James Bates, which they believed was stored on Amazon servers via use of an Amazon Echo, people were ready to opine on Amazon’s role, but little was said about what it means for …
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
… parent company Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Amazon. However, lesser known AdTech companies also have …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… up, and helping it stay ahead of competitors like Snapchat. Amazon Amazon revealed a record-high profit in the first quarter of … of risky investments, which if successful will reinforce Amazon's dominance in the markets. For example, in 2016, …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… crime by using consumer electronics. The company, which Amazon acquired in 2018, sells its cameras with a social … surveillance. https://theintercept.com/2019/02/14/amazon-ring-police-surveillance/ Writer: Sam Biddle … campaigning on IoT in Court Type of abuse Data sharing IoT Amazon Law enforcement …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… miniature security camera maker Ring, which was acquired by Amazon in 2017 for a reported $1 billion, has a history of … Ukraine-based research and development team to a folder on Amazon's S3 cloud service that held, unencrypted, every … customers' live feeds. https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/ Writer: Sam Biddle Publication: …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… chat sessions were accessible to the open web via the app's Amazon Web Services S3 bucket. Location and other metadata …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… and the stand-alone German and Italian investigations into Amazon’s anti-competitive behaviour, Austria is now investigating whether Amazon is exploiting its market dominance in relation to … In a statement, it said “[T]here is a suspicion that Amazon puts other retailers on a disadvantage on its …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… watchdog, is nearing a decision on its investigation into Amazon. According to a report in Seeking Alpha, EU … gathered “a lot of data” in its investigation into Amazon. The report noted the EU sent out 1,500 … loses-in-on-amazon-investigation/ and https://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2019/eu-decision-amazon-investigation/ Author: CPI …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… authority said that it had launched a probe into five Amazon companies for possible abuse of dominant market … services. The companies being looked into include Amazon Services Europe, Amazon Europe Core, Amazon EU, Amazon Italia Services, and …
Friday, May 17, 2019
… Following Ms. Vestager’s investigation into Amazon and its own sector enquiry into online price … and is said to be “ looking at the role and market power of Amazon ” with regards to Amazon’s hybrid function. (Nicholas Hirst, MLEX, 27 June …