Tag: Amazon

House subcommittee requests information from Ring about cooperation with police, local governments

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A House subcommittee is asking Amazon’s home security outfit Ring for information about its partnerships with city governments and local police departments as well as its data protection policy.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), who chairs the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, expressed concerns in a letter to Amazon about reports that Ring cooperates with the local entities to promote its surveillance tools and has agreements with some cities to provide discounts on their products to residents in exchange for city subsidies. He also said he was alarmed by reports that Ring “tightly controls” what is said about them in public and mandates prior approval of any statement. 
— Read on thehill.com/policy/technology/483671-house-subcommittee-requests-information-from-ring-about-cooperation-with

Illinois village opposes Amazon distribution center that would add 1,500 jobs

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Amazon’s plan to build a mega-fulfillment center in a suburban Illinois city is drawing protest from the mayor.
— Read on www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/illinois-amazon-jobs-bolingbrook

Wait?!?! I want to see more people like this guy!!! A real conservative populist, unlike Trump?! Don’t tell me Trump is populist until he supports a living wage!!

“The pro-Trump, pro-business Claar maintained Amazon knew his opposition to its proposal but decided to go ahead anyway.”

Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series ‘Hunters’

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He said the museum is always willing to provide factual advice to anyone studying or working on Auschwitz history. More than 2 million people a year visit the site with its historic barracks, the ruins of the gas chambers and a monument to the victims.

“Hunters” is about a postwar hunt in New York for Nazi war criminals. It includes a scene where Auschwitz inmates are figures in a chess game and are killed when they are taken off the chessboard.

“This is false. There was no such thing,” Sawicki said.
— Read on www.abc27.com/news/entertainment/auschwitz-museum-upset-at-scene-in-amazon-series-hunters/

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Amazon forcing Palestinians to list themselves as Israelis for free shipping

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

International human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, however, cited such a reason as insufficient and called Amazon’s policy “blatant discrimination between potential customers on the basis of their nationality” within the same area of operation. The activist organisation Peace Now also commented on the situation, saying that Amazon’s discriminatory policy “adds to the overall picture of one group of people enjoying the privileges of citizenship while another people living in the same territory do not.”
— Read on www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200214-amazon-forcing-palestinians-to-list-themselves-as-israelis-for-free-shipping/