{"id":1626396,"date":"2022-08-30T07:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626396"},"modified":"2022-08-30T07:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:06:46","slug":"privacy-experts-warn-amazon-is-expanding-its-surveillance-empire-through-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/privacy-experts-warn-amazon-is-expanding-its-surveillance-empire-through-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Experts Warn Amazon Is Expanding Its Surveillance Empire Through Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprivacy-experts-warn-amazon-is-expanding-its-surveillance-empire-through-acquisitions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Privacy experts are warning of Amazon\u2019s growing surveillance powers following the company\u2019s acquisition of clinic chain One Medical and iRobot, the company behind Roomba.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-empire-of-surveillance-leveraging-monopoly-power-tracking-purchases-2022-8?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=webfeeds&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that legislators, antitrust advocates, and privacy experts have begun warning of Amazon\u2019s growing surveillance powers following the company\u2019s recent multi-billion dollars purchases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/07\/22\/the-amazon-takeover-of-healthcare-industry-continues-with-clinic-chain-acquisition\/\">One Medical<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/08\/08\/amazon-buys-roomba-maker-to-suck-up-your-dirt-and-your-data\/\">iRobot<\/a>. One company will give them access to patients\u2019 medical info while the other will allow them to map users\u2019 homes via the popular Roomba home vacuum robots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_14364572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-825338356.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ROMEOVILLE, IL \u2013 AUGUST 01: Workers pack and ship customer orders at the 750,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center on August 1, 2017 in Romeoville, Illinois. Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One data privacy expert commented to Business Insider that it\u2019s\u00a0\u201clike the mythical Hydra, where you cut off one head and two more grow in its place.\u201d Evan Greer, the director of the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future noted that Amazon has relied on surveillance to dominate the competition for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople tend to think of Amazon as an online marketplace, but really, Amazon is a surveillance company,\u201d Greer told Insider. \u201cEvery aspect of their profit is derived from their ability to amass and leverage data.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Amazon closely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/12\/02\/amazon-will-monitor-warehouse-workers-with-ai-technology\/\">surveils its employees<\/a> and tracks a \u201ctime off task\u201d metric that measures worker productivity and punishes them accordingly. The company previously faced a scandal when delivery drivers complained of AI cameras fitted in their vans.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon also tracks every click on its website, whether a user purchases an item or not, and tells the tech giant if you check reviews or price shop before completing a purchase and which ads you viewed.\u00a0\u201cAmazon has all this data available,\u201d Greer told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/apr\/24\/amazon-jeff-bezos-customer-data-industries\">the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThey track what people are searching for, what they click, what they don\u2019t. Every time you\u2019re searching for something and don\u2019t click, you\u2019re telling Amazon that there\u2019s a gap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ron Knox, a senior researcher and writer for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, told Business Insider: \u201cThis all works together because Amazon is trying as best they can to funnel information about its customers\u2019 lives, about their spending habits, about their eating habits, sleeping habits, their shopping habits. They\u2019re tracking all this data so that they can better sell us things. That\u2019s what Amazon wants to do, that\u2019s what its monopoly is based on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-empire-of-surveillance-leveraging-monopoly-power-tracking-purchases-2022-8?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=webfeeds&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T\">Business Insider here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy experts are warning of Amazon\u2019s growing surveillance powers following the company\u2019s acquisition of clinic chain One Medical and iRobot, the company behind Roomba. 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