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1. Amazon mounts mutlifaceted attacks on **privacy**
1. Amazon is making an astronomical investment in facial recognition to exploit a market worth [$8 billion][facial8bn] which will destroy physical travel privacy worldwide. Amazon's innaccurate technology [erroneously matched][facialAccuracyBad] 100 US and UK politicians to criminals. Amazon also developed the technology by [unlawfully](https://web.archive.org/web/20201226111112/https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-google-and-microsoft-sued-over-photos-in-facial-recognition-database) using people's images without consent to train facial recognition products.
1. Amazon deploys Ring and Alexa to surveil neighborhoods and surveil the inside of homes.
1. Amazon deploys Ring, Alexa, and Sidewalk to surveil neighborhoods and surveil the inside of homes.
1. Amazon kept everyone's Alexa recordings and transcripts [indefinitely][alexaForever], until public backlash coerced them to [offer a delete feature](https://web.archive.org/web/20210115031227/https://www.cnet.com/news/alexa-can-now-immediately-delete-your-voice-recordings) in 2020 4th quarter-- a "feature" that a socially responsible company would have included at inception. The deletions are not enabled by default (users must login to the web portal and tweak their settings manually, at which point Amazon tries to discourage users by saying Alexa won't be as smart without history).
1. Sidewalk creates a private network by [exploiting the "smart" home devices][sidewalk] in a way that data can become vulnerable to inappropriate access.
1. Amazons Echo and the smart TVs [monitor everything you do][snoopOnAll] -- [even if you disable ad reporting][snoopWhenOff]. (Note the research paper is not open to the public because ACM locks their digital library in the exclusive walled-garden of CloudFlare)
1. Amazon [paid][CCPA195k] $195k to fight privacy in California by lobbying [against the CCPA][CCPALobby].
1. Amazon [supported](http://www.allcom.se/it-nyheter/apple-makes-a-stand-against-cisa-cybersecurity-bill) the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act ([CISA](https://truthinmedia.com/cisa-supporters-under-threat-from-anonymous-splinter-group/)), a recycled version of CISPA, which passed after CISPA was voted down. CISA facilitates corporation-government information oversharing in a way that circumvents protections under the 4th amendment of the US Constitution. Amazon appeared on both sides of this, as it wanted the public to believe that Amazon [opposed](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/tech-giants-oppose-us-threat-intel) CISA. (*citation needed-- the original allcom.se link is dead and allcom.se blocks archival*)
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[wastes-stock]: <https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds>
[wastes-stock-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20210621101104/https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds>
[sidewalk]: <https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/20/aclu-alarm-amazon-activates-sidewalk-surveillance-system>
[sidewalk-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20210621074342/https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/06/20/aclu-alarm-amazon-activates-sidewalk-surveillance-system>

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[RAP-pp]: <paypal.md>
[//]: # (to do: incorporate or reference https://write.pixie.town/thufie/dont-trust-cloudflare)
[//]: # (https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/rap_sheets/paypal.md)
[//]: # (interesting flip-flopping loop when trying to visit dl.acm.org via archive.org from curl)