Amazon Unveils Augmented Reality to Enforce Social Distancing in New Norm for Corporate America

Amazon has started testing on several social distancing technologies following demands for public safety amid COVID-19 and the intrusive changes will likely have a permanent effect on workers’ rights to privacy.

Raul Diego
بواسطة Raul Diego
Amazon augmented reality Feature photo

Should you be one of the dozens of people working minimum ten-hour shifts at Amazon's fulfillment center in Kent, Washington these days, you might very well be at the vanguard of the "new normal" for American blue collar workplaces. The 1 million-square-foot facility located about 20 miles south of Seattle is the site of a new wearable

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Jeff Bezos, World’s Richest Man, Wants Your Donations To Help Amazon Employees

A man worth over $100 billion, who makes, on average, $230,000 per minute calling on the public to help his own impoverished employees was not met well by many.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Amazon Coronavirus Feature photo

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s first centibillionaire, a man who vies with Bill Gates for the title of the planet’s richest individual, is asking the public for donations to provide basic support to his 800,000 employees who are suffering in poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bezos announced: “We are establishing the Amazon Relief

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Jeff Bezos Donates Three Minutes’ Income to Help Australia Fight Wildfires

The donation would be equivalent to someone who earned $500 per week announcing on social media that they had just donated five cents to help tackle the blazes.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Jeff Bezos Feature photo

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the newly crowned richest person in the world, announced Sunday on his Instagram page that his company was donating one million Australian Dollars (around 690,000 U.S. Dollars) to help the country deal with the continent-wide fires ravaging the nation. “Our hearts go out to all Australians as they cope with

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Report Shows Corporations and Bolsonaro Teaming Up to Destroy the Amazon

“Bolsonaro has overseen the most significant rollback, and full-on assault, on human rights and environmental protection in Brazil since the fall of the country’s military dictatorship.”

Joe Catron
بواسطة Joe Catron
Brazil Amazon | Bolsonaro

As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and business interests they blame for a spike in illegal logging and other resource extraction. A report released by Amazon Watch as part of its ongoing

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Amazon Facial Rekognition App Sets Off Alarm Bells

Jeff Bezos’ ties to the national security state through Amazon Web Services are formidable, but the triple-digit billionaire’s furnishing of surveillance tools to the police state are no less disturbing.

Alexander Rubinstein
بواسطة Alexander Rubinstein
Amazon | Rekognition

SEATTLE -- Amazon is lobbying the public with proposed guidelines for lawmakers to adopt when crafting legislation around the use of facial-recognition technology. Amazon’s own software, Rekognition, has been put to the test by rights groups such as the ACLU, who have come to troubling conclusions about racial bias and threats to civil

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One Man Could End World Hunger — But He Won’t

This column is not about Jeff Bezos. It’s about the system that created Jeff Bezos.

Lee Camp
بواسطة Lee Camp

This article originally appeared on Truth Dig. I do not want to talk about Jeff Bezos. But in order to not talk about Jeff Bezos, I have to talk about Jeff Bezos. We all know the Lex Luthor-looking head of Amazon is the richest human in the world. He’s achieved a net worth of more than $150 billion by selling everything that has ever

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