The Orlando Police Department ended a pilot test of Amazon’s Rekognition facial scanning tech this week after failing to properly utilize the software due to multiple glitches and a lack of resources.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that he is investing a large portion of his money into the development of space technologies, as he claims that “we are in the process of destroying this planet” and will eventually need to live and work in space.
President Donald Trump is considering stepping in to eliminate Amazon’s looming $10 billion contract with the Pentagon for cloud computing, Bloomberg News reports.
“The president won this one,” said an unnamed Democrat politician of Donald Trump’s “showdown” with the Democrat “squad.”
The E.U. has launched an antitrust investigation of e-commerce giant Amazon which could see the company fined as much as $23 billion.
“If you own an Android phone, everything you’re talking on right now is going back to China,” said Democrat presidential candidate Joe Sestak.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is echoing talking points from the big business lobby after voting for a green card giveaway plan for an immediate 300,000 Indian workers while supporting Big Tech’s outsourcing business model.
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, are going on strike Monday during is the first of the company’s two “Prime Day” summer promotions. Monday’s protest is the latest in a series of Amazon controversies involving its warehouse employees.
Global online retail giant Amazon was condemned in Germany on Saturday for allowing the sale of antisemitic books and pro-Nazi merchandise.
As many as 500 Amazon employees have signed a letter to executives calling for Peter Thiel’s Palantir to be banned from Amazon Web Sevices for working with ICE.
Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says Americans must call Congress to “put a clampdown” on a green card giveaway plan that passed through the House this week that is set to supply Big Tech corporations with a never-ending stream of white-collar foreign workers.
Nearly a majority of Americans back Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) legislation to “stop big tech’s assault on free speech,” according to a poll released Thursday.
Amazon, the multinational corporation run by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is thanking the 140 House Republicans and 224 House Democrats for passing legislation that will reinforce Silicon Valley’s cheap labor, outsourcing business model.
Representatives from the Masters of the Universe at Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are expected to appear at a congressional antitrust hearing taking place next week.
Legendary Silicon Valley genius and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned Facebook users to find a way to get off the social media platform in a recent video.
Amazon has taken another step towards political censorship, banning all books by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist associated by critics with the rise of “gay conversion therapy.” This follows its ban on a book by Islam critic Tommy Robinson earlier this year.
European countries including France are making a push for massive tax increases on technology giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
Amazon’s investment in British food delivery startup Deliveroo has been halted by Britain’s competition regulator in a rare loss for the Masters of the Universe.
HBO host John Oliver has found himself in a war of words with e-commerce giant Amazon, after criticizing the company’s notoriously “brutal” warehouse conditions.
Major tech manufacturers including HP, Dell, Amazon, and Microsoft are all considering moving a portion of their production out of China as a result of the trade war between Washington and Beijing.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Wednesday pledged during the first 2020 Democrat presidential debate in Miami, Florida to “single out” Amazon in an effort to combat “corporate consolidation” if elected president.
Axios recently reported that consumers should happily accept being kept under surveillance by Big Tech companies, as long as any privacy concerns that might materialize are quelled with quick perks. “I just don’t care what the company knows,” said one consumer, who admits to enjoying “life under the reign of big tech.”
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mark Warner (D-VA) will introduce legislation Monday to require Facebook, Google, and Amazon to disclose the value of their users’ data.
Amazon continues to make multi-billion dollar profits without paying a dime in federal taxes.
Like the hate network that employs him, Jim Acosta is a national joke and failure.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act grants massive benefits to Google, Facebook, and Twitter, allowing them to censor without significant legal recourse.
The New York state assembly has given Uber, investors, and business groups a huge extra supply of 250,000 illegal immigrant drivers, so depressing wages for Americans and legal immigrants who earn their wages by delivering people, cargo, and food to their destinations.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed billionaire Jeff Bezos for paying his employees at Amazon what she called “starvation wages.”
Serious questions surrounding a high-value Pentagon contract, worth $10 billion and geared to be granted to web giant Amazon, could complicate Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s chances of confirmation by the U.S. Senate into a permanent position atop the Department of Defense should President Donald Trump follow through with nominating him for the post.
Appearing Sunday on ABC News’ “The Week,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ billionaire-status is partly due to paying his workers “starvation wages.”
