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‘Frontline’ documentary tackles Jeff Bezos and the ‘Amazon Empire’

[ad_1] The two-hour film touches on various facets of Amazon’s vast empire, from Alexa and its massively successful Amazon Web Services cloud division through to entertainment on Prime Video and its bricks-and-mortar retail exploits such as Whole Foods. Twitch is perhaps the most prominent division that doesn’t really come under the spotlight. The filmmakers devote […]

Senate demands answers from Amazon over Ring surveillance

[ad_1] Amazon acquired Ring last year for $1 billion in an attempt to counter Google’s purchase of Nest. The company launched its Neighbors app shortly afterwards, explaining that it would allow users to reports suspicious goings-on and report them to law enforcement. However, several reports raised privacy concerns about a mega-corporation teaming with law enforcement. […]