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Find the latest news and reports on Amazon. It is a US electronic trading company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Get news and information about the founding and transformation of Amazon. Its headquarters is located in Seattle, Washington. Amazon is one of the world’s top retail dealers by income and market capitalization. Visit RT for the latest news and details on the current activities of Amazon. From time to time, like many other giants, Amazon runs into financial problems or social issues with its workers. Follow RT to get all the news. And finally, find news on the issue of Amazon’s cloud-based voice service Alexa, which turned out to be something like a spy device.
- Amazon’s smart-speaker Alexa ‘leaks’ private conversation to random number
A US couple was horrified to find out that their private conversation was recorded by Amazon’s Echo voice-controlled device and sent to a work contact. Amazon blamed the “extremely rare” incident on an unlikely sequence of events.US News - Surveillance state? Amazon selling facial recognition technology to govt ‘threatens freedom’
Amazon’s powerful new facial recognition technology automates mass government surveillance and threatens individual freedom, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).US News - #NappingWhileBlack: Yale embroiled in race row after bizarre dorm incident
The dean of Yale says the prestigious university needs to make efforts to be more inclusive after a white graduate student called the police on a black student who fell asleep on a couch in a common area of their campus residence.US News - Amazon v Seattle: 7,000 jobs under threat as retail giant protests homeless tax
Amazon has halted development of a high-rise office block in downtown Seattle, threatening to ditch the plans altogether unless the city withdraws a proposed new tax to fund homelessness programs.US News - Back to earth, Bezos! Amazon chief under fire for space travel plans as workers struggle
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is facing criticism for plans to spend billions on space travel as his workers sleep in tents to save money and pee in bottles to avoid missing their daily work targets.US News - Amazon workers pee into bottles out of fear of being punished for taking bathroom breaks
Amazon may be owned by the world’s richest man, but some employees at the company pee into bottles to avoid missing their targets by going to the toilet, says an author who went undercover at the firm’s UK warehouse.Business News
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