Archiv: Amazon Inc. / Amazon Web Services (monopolies)


17.11.2021 - 18:12 [ Heise.de ]

Biotechnologie, Staat und Kapital

Dieser Markt ließe sich unermesslich steigern, sollte die Propaganda, dass die gesamte Menschheit (B. Gates) und in Deutschland fast die gesamte Bevölkerung (A. Merkel) geimpft werden solle und auch müsse, umgesetzt werden. Deshalb schätzt das Finanz- und Analyseunternehmen „Morningstar“ für 2021 zu erwartenden Umsatz von 67 Milliarden US-Dollar für Covid-19-Impfstoffe. Der Umsatz der Rüstungsindustrie umfasste 2019 166 Mrd. US-Dollar.

Zwei dieser Biotech-Unternehmen sollen näher betrachtet werden: Biontech und Curevac.

27.09.2021 - 23:49 [ France24 ]

Blue Origin unveils next flight, TMZ says Captain Kirk to be aboard

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, announced plans on Monday for its next flight and the news and entertainment website TMZ said it may include a celebrity astronaut — William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on „Star Trek.“

09.08.2021 - 07:36 [ theSun.co.uk ]

Facebook will soon be able to scan your texts – sparking privacy panic

(06.08.2021)

Other companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are also said to be working on homomorphic encryption.

28.07.2021 - 12:00 [ Haaretz ]

NSO Spyware Scandal May Threaten Israel’s Love Affair With Amazon and Google

he idea is that computing services will be supplied by local cloud sites, and the information – from the government, the IDF and private bodies – will be processed and stored within the borders of Israel and subject to state laws. This will take place by establishing Israeli subsidiaries to large companies like Amazon and Google that will do business with the government.

21.07.2021 - 19:35 [ theCanary.co/uk/ ]

Coronavirus data contractors engaged in dirty tricks and disinformation campaigns

(10.05.2020)

Palantir was co-founded in 2004 by Paypal owner and billionaire Peter Thiel. What the blog doesn’t reveal is that Palantir’s client list has included amomgst others, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the Centre for Disease Control, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point and the IRS.

Furthermore, in 2016, it was revealed Palantir had a $34.6m contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and helped the Customs and Border Protection Agency create the Analytical Framework for Intelligence (AFI) system to track immigrants.

Nor does the blog mention that Palantir worked for UK intelligence and was awarded contracts to handle vast data sets on UK citizens for British spy agency GCHQ.

07.07.2021 - 21:25 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. ]

JEDI: Microsoft vs. Amazon (II)

… Das Projekt für den Aufbau eines Cloud-Systems namens Jedi entspreche nicht mehr den Bedürfnissen des Militärs, erklärte das Pentagon.“

24.02.2021 - 21:23 [ Golem.de ]

Bundestagsanhörung: Eco warnt vor Komplettzugriff des BND auf das Internet

(22.02.2021)

Ebenfalls wurde bemängelt, dass der Kontrollrat über kein Verfahrensrecht verfüge. Daher könne das Gremium externe Personen nicht zu einer Zeugenaussage oder zur Abgabe eines eidesstattlichen Gutachtens verpflichten. Die Zeugen müssten daher auch nicht die Wahrheit sagen, weil, anders als beispielsweise bei einem Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestags, eine uneidliche Falschaussage nicht strafbar sei. Damit falle die Kontrollintensität hinter die eines normalen Gerichts zurück.

24.02.2021 - 21:22 [ Eco / Bundestag ]

Hauptkritik zum Gesetzesentwurf zur Reform des BND-G (BT-Drs. 19/26103

(18.02.2021)

eco bewertet die Befugnis zum staatlichen Hacking aus §19 Abs. 6 grundsätzlich sehr kritisch. Gegenstand der Regelung ist der Zugriff des BND auf Bestands-, Verkehrs- und Inhaltsdaten ohne Wissen des jeweiligen Betreibers. Die Regelung ist auch auf Plattformbetreiber wie Google, Facebook, Amazon und Apple anwendbar. Grundsätzlich wären alle Dienstanbieter von Telekommunikation, Clouddiensten und sonstigen Telemediendiensten im Ausland potentielle Ziele eines staatlichen Eindringens.

24.02.2021 - 11:35 [ Yahoo.com ]

SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye, CrowdStrike defend actions in major hack – U.S. Senate hearing

Lawmakers started the hearing by criticizing Amazon representatives, who they said were invited to testify and whose servers were used to launch the cyberattack, for declining to attend the hearing.

24.02.2021 - 10:28 [ Zero Hedge ]

60 Years After Eisenhower’s Warning, Distinct Signs Of A ‚Digital-Intelligence Complex‘

In June 2019, Susan Gordon stood on a stage at the Washington Convention Center. Behind her loomed three giant letters, “AWS,” the abbreviation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the giant Internet retailer.

After three decades at the Central Intelligence Agency, Gordon had risen to one of the top jobs in the cloak-and-dagger world: principal deputy director of national intelligence. From that perch she publicly extolled the virtues of Amazon Web Services and the cloud services the tech giant provides the CIA.

17.01.2021 - 18:08 [ Dr Naomi Wolf / Twitter ]

Part 2 of my 3 part series on how NHS does not manage, own, present its own COVID data, but for-profits such as Amazon, Palantir, Transunion, Boots, Microsoft, Google and G4S do. So they can say anything, profit from ‘lockdown’ .

(…)

14.01.2021 - 12:29 [ Achse des Guten ]

Der Internet-Putsch

Die großen Medientechnologiekonzerne der Wall Street haben eine beispiellose Säuberungswelle im Internet gestartet. Big Tech löscht nicht mehr länger nur Nutzerbeiträge. Nun wollen Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple und Amazon aller Welt zeigen, dass sie als Meinungswächter frei entscheiden können, wer sich im Internet äußern darf – und wer nicht.

11.01.2021 - 10:04 [ Caitlin Johnstone. ]

Patriot Act 2, Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

“We need to stop fascism so let’s give massive sweeping powers to an elite alliance of unelected authoritarians.”

“Well I’m a leftist and I haven’t been banned on social media.”

That’s because the left is politically impotent in our society. Unless this is just a hobby for you, at some point you should plan on the left becoming a threat to the oligarchs and warmongers. What do you think happens then?

Do you really think if the left actually becomes a threat to the status quo the Neera Tandens and Rachel Maddows aren’t going to suddenly discover a reason why you’re dangerous and need to be censored? The only way to be fine with censorship is to plan on never challenging power.

11.01.2021 - 09:51 [ Jesse Singal, author / Twitter ]

It’s sorta weird that Twitter does this mass banning of accounts, including, like, Red Scare, and the response from so many people is „Well they were all Nazis.“ Were they? What has Twitter revealed to you guys about the process that they are hiding from the rest of us?

11.01.2021 - 09:33 [ Glenn Greenwald / Twitter ]

It was a *Democratic-controlled* House sub-committee that just a few months ago issued a lengthy report concluding that FB, Amazon, Google & Apple are *monopolies*. That means competition is impossible. Now Dems are happy that it’s used for them:

I’ve been resisting the conclusion that this is Liberals‘ 9/11 because it at first seemed hyperbolic, even though they’re using the same weapons against their critics (if you question all the new powers they want, it means you love the Terrorists).

But this is Liberals‘ 9/11.

10.01.2021 - 14:23 [ theCanary.co ]

Coronavirus data contractors engaged in dirty tricks and disinformation campaigns

(10.05.2020)

Palantir was co-founded in 2004 by Paypal owner and billionaire Peter Thiel. What the blog doesn’t reveal is that Palantir’s client list has included amomgst others, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the Centre for Disease Control, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point and the IRS.

Furthermore, in 2016, it was revealed Palantir had a $34.6m contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and helped the Customs and Border Protection Agency create the Analytical Framework for Intelligence (AFI) system to track immigrants.

Nor does the blog mention that Palantir worked for UK intelligence and was awarded contracts to handle vast data sets on UK citizens for British spy agency GCHQ.

10.01.2021 - 14:15 [ theRegister.com ]

UK govt publishes contracts granting Amazon, Microsoft, Google and AI firms access to COVID-19 health data

(05.06.2020)

UK government has published the contracts it holds with private tech firms and the NHS for the creation of a COVID-19 data store, just days after campaigners fired legal shots over a lack of transparency.

Available on the openDemocracy website, the contracts describe how the arrangements between the NHS and Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and AI firms Faculty and Palantir (which subcontracts to AWS) will operate.

25.11.2020 - 19:47 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) ]

Repression im Cyber Valley

Heute fand ein erster Prozess gegen die Menschen statt, die vor einem Jahr im Tübinger Gemeinderat gegen das Amazon-Entwicklungszentrum im Cyber Valley protestiert hatten. Betroffen war ein IMI-Beirat und -Autor. Wir dokumentieren hier Beiträge der Berichterstattung aus dem Prozess und von der Solidaritäts-Kundgebung.

19.11.2020 - 02:10 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) ]

Cyber Valley: Prozess

… Dem Angeklagten wird vorgeworfen, während der Gemeinderatssitzung aus einem Thesenpapier des Amtes für Heeresentwicklung zu „Künstlicher Intelligenz in den Landstreitkräften“ vorgelesen zu haben, um auf die militärischen Verwicklungen von Amazon aufmerksam zu machen. Diese wurden vom anwesenden Vertreter des Amazon-Konzerns zunächst geleugnet, später eingeräumt.“

05.09.2020 - 11:39 [ theHill.com ]

Pentagon reaffirms decision to award multi-billion JEDI contract to Microsoft

The Pentagon on Friday reaffirmed its decision earlier this year to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft over Amazon.

03.09.2020 - 06:45 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) ]

Gegen das digitale Wettrüsten: Rede beim Antikriegstag 2020 in Tübingen

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,

wir wissen mittlerweile, dass auch Forschung im Cyber Valley von den US-Geheimdiensten finanziert wird. Zwei Tübinger Unternehmen wurden dabei als „verbundene Startups“ angegeben, nach öffentlicher Berichterstattung aber schnell von der Homepage genommen. Dort findet sich aber bis heute das Startup eines ehemaligen MPI-Forschers, der nun in den USA am selben IARPA-Forschungsprojekt beteiligt ist, wie seine ehemaligen Kolleginnen am Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik. Dieses Startup implementiert mit Anschubfinanzierung des Pentagons Software für Datenverarbeitung auf Servern von Amazon Web Services.

29.07.2020 - 11:19 [ Cnet.com ]

Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook CEOs to appear at antitrust hearing on July 27

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust will hear from the tech giants‘ leaders.

11.06.2020 - 12:41 [ theHill.com ]

Amazon puts one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology

Amazon on Wednesday announced that it is placing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology, Rekognition.

„We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,“ the company wrote in a blog post.

23.05.2020 - 01:49 [ ORF ]

Superreiche in den USA werden noch reicher

Das Vermögen der 600 reichsten US-Amerikaner wuchs zwischen dem 18. März und dem 19. Mai um insgesamt 434 Milliarden Dollar (395 Mrd. Euro) – das entspricht einer Steigerung von fast 15 Prozent, wie das US-Magazin „Forbes“ gestern berichtete.

19.05.2020 - 19:16 [ Medium.com ]

Open Letter, May 18, 2020, London: Dear Matt Hancock, we are civil society organisations, privacy advocates and academic researchers writing to express concerns about the NHS’s plans to build a COVID-19 datastore.

We share the common goal of preserving public confidence in systems that can help make us all safer. Therefore, before the NHS continues its plans, we urge you to provide the public with more information and take appropriate measures to reduce risk of data sharing and keep the aggregated data under democratic control.

In March, the NHS announced a new plan to build a datastore that aggregates COVID-19 health data. Microsoft, Google, Palantir, Faculty and Amazon will assist in the development of the datastore and the processing of the data.

19.05.2020 - 19:10 [ Computerweekly.com ]

Privacy advocates demand clarity over Covid-19 datastore

(yesterday)

In an open letter directly addressed to the health secretary, civil society organisations, privacy advocates and academic researchers urged Hancock to give the public more information about the datastore and take appropriate measures to reduce data-sharing risks and keep it under democratic control.

19.05.2020 - 18:15 [ Forbes ]

Facebook: Here’s Proof Israeli WhatsApp Hackers Ran Cyberweapons In America

(24.04.2020)

The tech giant’s counsel filed a response to NSO’s move for dismissal that included two IP addresses and a handful of websites it claims were used by NSO Group to attack WhatsApp users in spring 2019. One was hosted by Amazon Web Services in the U.S., the others by Californian company QuadraNet and a German provider.

16.05.2020 - 23:40 [ Informationsstelle Miitarisierung (IMI) ]

Cyber Valley, MPI und US-Geheimdienste

Ein militärisch-forschungsindustrieller Komplex?

16.05.2020 - 02:05 [ teleSUR ]

Brazil: Coronavirus Kills Historic Leader of Amazonian Peoples

Messias Kokama, the main Indigenous leader of the Manaus city, died a victim of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on Wednesday. His community mourns his departure without being able to pay homage to him with their traditional rituals.

23.04.2020 - 05:50 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) ]

Cyber Valley: Forschungsgruppe von US-Geheimdiensten finanziert

Die Forschungsgruppe ist Kernbestandteil des sog. Cyber Valley. Bereits in jener Pressemitteilung Ende 2016, mit der die baden-württembergische Landesregierung, die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und die Industrie die Gründung des Forschungsclusters bekanntgaben, wurde die Bildung dieser Forschungsgruppen angekündigt, die den Wissenstransfer zwischen Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft garantieren sollten.

16.04.2020 - 06:07 [ teleSUR ]

Billionaire Jeff Bezos Makes US$24 Billion More Amid Pandemic

The index updates followed a report published Saturday by Forbes about how „market gains led to a combined US$51.3 billion boost for 10 of the world’s billionaires since the market closed a week ago, on April 2.“ Bezos gained US$6.8 billion in that time.

18.02.2020 - 13:21 [ Vox.com ]

Jeff Bezos asked Michael Bloomberg months ago if he’d consider running for president

(09.11.2019)

A spokesperson for Bloomberg confirmed the conversation. An Amazon spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.

19.01.2020 - 00:22 [ Reuters ]

Brazilian tribes back manifesto to save Amazon habitat from Bolsonaro

The meeting in the village of Piaraçu on the Xingu river was called by Raoni Metuktire, the 90-year-old Kayapó chief who became an environmental campaigner in the 1980s with British rock singer Sting at his side.

16.12.2019 - 21:15 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Indigene Völker fordern mehr Umweltschutz von Regierungen in Ecuador und Peru

Sie zeigten sich empört darüber, dass der ecuadorianische Präsident Lenín Moreno behauptete, „dass die Ausweitung der Ölbohrungen im Heiligen Quellgebiet des Amazonas mit dem Pariser Abkommen vereinbar ist und die indigenen Rechte nicht beeinträchtigt werden“, äußerte Sandra Tukup, Leiterin des Verbandes der Indigenen Nationalitäten des ecuadorianischen Amazonas (CONFENIAE), am Rande der Konferenz.

08.12.2019 - 12:14 [ teleSUR ]

Brazil: Attack on Guajajara Indigenous People Leaves 1 Dead

Firmino Prexede Guajajara died on the spot and Nelsi Olimpio Guajajara was shot in his leg. They were returning from a political meeting in which the defense of Indigenous territories was discussed.

11.11.2019 - 17:50 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Bundespolizei speichert Bodycam-Aufnahmen weiter bei Amazon

Die Bundespolizei müsse den Einsatz der neuen Instrumente ausführlich dokumentieren und eine Evaluation dürfe nicht dem Bundespolizeipräsidium überlassen werden. Eine unabhängige, wissenschaftliche Bewertung durch eine externe Stelle ist laut Innenministerium aber nicht geplant und wird auch nicht als notwendig erachtet.

04.11.2019 - 18:42 [ MercoPress ]

Outrage in Brazil at the killing of an indigenous “guardian of the forest”

“Violence and death threats against the guardians have been happening for years,” Sarah Shenker, a researcher with Survival International who knew Paulo Paulino, said

“There is a lot of impunity. The authorities are unwilling to protect the indigenous lands,” Shenker charged.

“Their racist words and genocidal, anti-indigenous proposals give a kind of green light.”

Greenpeace said the two men were “the most recent victims of a state that refuses to comply with what the constitution determines.”

03.11.2019 - 02:01 [ Trend.az ]

IIlegal loggers kill Amazon indigenous warrior who guarded forest, wound another

Paulino Guajajara, who was in his twenties and leaves behind one son, told Reuters in an interview here on the reservation in September that protecting the forest from intruders had become a dangerous task, but his people could not give in to fear.

22.10.2019 - 23:51 [ Techdirt ]

Civil Rights Groups Ask Legislators To Block Ring’s Surveillance Partnerships With Law Enforcement

Ring has cornered the market. It also has 400+ law enforcement agencies in its pocket. The expansion isn’t slowing and Ring has shown it’s willing to speak on behalf of the government through press releases and to edit the government’s statements if it doesn’t like what’s being said. This isn’t normal. And the potential downsides of allowing cops and private companies to coexist as equal partners in surveillance have just begun to be explored.

08.10.2019 - 04:01 [ Reuters ]

Ecuador’s Petroamazonas suspends operations at three oilfields amid protests

Ecuadorean state-run oil company Petroamazonas EP suspended operations at three oil fields in the Amazon region on Monday, the country’s energy ministry said, as protests against austerity measures convulse the country.

15.09.2019 - 19:45 [ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abgeordnete des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]

Your ability to get insulin or see a doctor shouldn’t depend on how generous a billionaire is feeling today. Employers stripping healthcare, either by taking it away or worsening it, is just part of the casual dehumanization of working people to increase returns for the rich.

15.09.2019 - 19:39 [ Business Insider ]

Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for hundreds of part-time workers

A 15-year employee of Whole Foods said she was devastated by the news.

She told Business Insider in an interview that her family was covered by the health-insurance plan she is enrolled in through her job at Whole Foods.

She said she would have to increase her hours to become eligible for full-time benefits and pay for childcare, or shop for a new and potentially more expensive health-insurance plan on the private marketplace.

06.09.2019 - 02:26 [ Reuters ]

Amazon’s Ring camera raises civil liberties concerns: U.S. senator

Facial recognition technology has been shown to disproportionately misidentify people of color. In a 2018 American Civil Liberties Union study, Rekognition incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, including Markey, to a database of 25,000 publicly available arrest photos.

14.08.2019 - 19:06 [ The Young Turks / Youtube ]

Bernie Sanders TRIGGERS Washington Post With Facts

The establishment media only wants to attack Bernie Sanders. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.

13.08.2019 - 15:26 [ theHill.com ]

Washington Post editor calls Sanders claim about campaign coverage a ‚conspiracy theory‘

Sanders and his campaign have begun arguing recently that a variety of news outlets, including the Post and the Times, are biased in their coverage of his 2020 White House bid.

„We have pointed out over and over again that Amazon made $10 billion in profits last year. You know how much they paid in taxes? You got it, zero! Any wonder why The Washington Post is not one of my great supporters, I wonder why?“ Sanders said in North Conway, N.H. on Monday night, according to CNN.

09.08.2019 - 04:38 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Amazon’s Ring Is a Perfect Storm of Privacy Threats

Doors across the United States are now fitted with Amazon’s Ring, a combination doorbell-security camera that records and transmits video straight to users’ phones, to Amazon’s cloud—and often to the local police department. By sending photos and alerts every time the camera detects motion or someone rings the doorbell, the app can create an illusion of a household under siege. It turns what seems like a perfectly safe neighborhood into a source of anxiety and fear. This raises the question: do you really need Ring, or have Amazon and the police misled you into thinking that you do?

13.07.2019 - 15:50 [ teleSUR ]

Peru Declares 60-Day State of Emergency for Amazon Oil Spill

A total of 1,230 families have been affected by a ruptured oil pipeline that has poured into the Maraňon River in the Loreto department of northeastern Peru, say the nation’s defense department.

06.07.2019 - 01:11 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Ausgebucht: Microsoft löscht verkaufte eBooks

Wenn Ihr jetzt denkt, das geht Euch nichts an, weil Ihr ja nicht bei Microsoft Kunden gewesen seid, sondern etwa Amazon Prime nutzt: Da gibt es dieselben Probleme: Amazon verkauft beispielsweise Filme online und bei den Kunden entsteht der Eindruck, das wäre vergleichbar mit einer gekauften DVD. Aber auch diese Online-Filme können schnell verschwinden, beispielsweise wenn ein Lizenzdeal zwischen einem Filmstudio und Amazon ausgelaufen ist.

Digital-Rights-Management-Systeme waren und sind ein schönes Beispiel für: Digital ist eben nicht immer besser.

27.06.2019 - 16:31 [ teleSUR ]

Ecuador’s Waorani Set to Save Their Amazon Homeland From Oil Industry

This comes as Moreno’s administration is planning to sell off seven million acres of rainforest territory, some of the most biodiverse on the planet, to the international oil industry. As non-governmental organization Amazon Frontlines, explains, if exploited, 70 percent of the oil would be shipped up to refineries in California, and eventually pumped at gas stations across the United States.

16.04.2019 - 02:24 [ Reuters ]

U.S. natural history museum will not host event honoring Brazil president

The museum had expressed concern over the event last week, saying it had been booked before the decision was made to honor Bolsonaro.

“With mutual respect for the work & goals of our individual organizations, we jointly agreed that the Museum is not the optimal location for the Brazilian-Am. Chamber of Commerce gala dinner,” the museum said on its official Twitter account.

06.04.2019 - 01:48 [ teleSUR ]

Brazil: Over 200 Lawmakers Form Bloc to Defend Indigenous Rights Threatened by Bolsonaro

A total of 219 lawmakers and 29 senators launched a new campaign on Thursday as part of Brazil’s Joint Parliamentary Front in Defense of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a progressive initiative aimed at opposing the Parliamentary Farmers‘ Front, the „ruralist group“ which is linked to local agribusinesses.

14.03.2019 - 23:49 [ teleSUR ]

Waorani Women Denied From Entering Court, Protest

Waorani women were not allowed to enter a courtroom where they were called to present arguments in favor of their historic claim against the Ecuadorean state for illegally trying to drill for oil in the heart of their territory located in the country’s eastern Amazon region.

03.03.2019 - 00:10 [ Radio Utopie ]

Nicht Amazon ist Skandal sondern Videos durch Bundespolizei

Angst wird geschürt, dass ausländische Dienste auf diese Daten Zugriff erhalten, diese Amazon-Server befinden sich in Frankfurt/Main. Beruhigt wird die Bevölkerung, dass eine Infrastruktur geschaffen werden soll, die ausschliesslich in Deutschland durch deutsche IT-Techniker verwaltet wird.

24.02.2019 - 20:54 [ Daily Mail ]

Three dead after a Boeing 767 Atlas Air cargo jet operating for Amazon Prime Air crashes into a bay on landing approach to Houston plunging more than 3,000ft in 30 seconds

According to FlightRadar the jet had departed Miami at 11.33 local time and was scheduled to arrive at Houston Intercontinental at 12.53 local time.

14.02.2019 - 18:02 [ Trend.az ]

Huawei to build data centers in South Africa

The Chinese firm, at the center of global security concerns, will challenge Amazon.com Inc, which is also expanding its presence in the emerging tech hub of Cape Town in a challenge against cloud computing rival Microsoft Corp.

09.02.2019 - 20:10 [ Bloomberg.com ]

The Bezos-National Enquirer Story Has *Everything*

Bezos’s accusation last night that National Enquirer owner American Media Inc. is trying to blackmail him had everything: Extortion, murder, politics, a billionaire’s private parts. It inspired both HuffPost and the elder Post to write the mathematically perfect tabloid headline, which I will not reprint in this wholesome family newsletter. More seriously, this is the latest and weirdest front in a clash of titans pitting the President of the United States against the World’s Richest Man.

08.02.2019 - 10:07 [ Jeff Bezos / Twitter ]

I’ve written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI. You can find it here:

08.02.2019 - 10:03 [ ORF.at ]

Bezos wirft Skandalblatt Erpressung vor

Wenig später machte der „National Enquirer“ die Affäre des Amazon-Chefs mit der früheren TV-Moderatorin Lauren Sanchez öffentlich und verbreitete dabei unter anderem intime Textnachrichten und Fotos von ihm.
Bezos ließ daraufhin untersuchen, wie das Blatt an dieses Material gelangt war.

08.02.2019 - 10:01 [ Collin Coel ‏/ Twitter ]

Amazon-Chef: Jeff Bezos macht Erpressungsversuch mit intimen Fotos öffentlich #JeffBezos #Erpressung #NationalEnquire

03.02.2019 - 20:45 [ WSWS ]

Amazon sucht ehemalige Bundeswehrangehörige als Führungspersonal

Inzwischen weiß man, dass diese Amazon-Teamleiter mit gewisser Wahrscheinlichkeit ehemalige Bundeswehr-Angehörige sind. Der Weltkonzern rüstet im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes auf. Der Grund dafür sind die unmenschlichen Arbeitsbedingungen, von denen die Amazon-Arbeiter berichten

23.01.2019 - 15:33 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Daten-Infrastruktur: Europa im Visier der Cloud-Giganten

Die beiden Big Player im Cloud-Infrastruktur-Markt sind Unternehmen, die eher in anderen Zusammenhängen bekannt sind. Amazon beispielsweise wird vorwiegend als Onlinehändler gesehen. Tatsächlich aber ist die Sparte Amazon Web Services (AWS) weltweit führend im Cloud-Segment. Rund 32 Prozent betrug der globale Marktanteil im dritten Quartal 2018, hat das Research-Unternehmen Canalys ausgerechnet.

16.01.2019 - 05:39 [ Sky News ]

Bosses round on ministers after May defeat

Sky News has learnt that the bosses of companies including construction giant Balfour Beatty, Tesco and Amazon told a trio of ministers – including the chancellor, Philip Hammond – in a hastily convened conference call – that protracted Brexit uncertainty was damaging Britain’s ‎economy.

During the call, which lasted nearly an hour, Mr Hammond, the Brexit secretary and business secretary were repeatedly asked for reassurance about the likelihood of a „no-deal“ departure from the EU.

08.01.2019 - 21:07 [ teleSUR ]

Brazil: Environment Agency Head Resigns After Bolsonaro’s Trump-like Tweetstorm Attack

Suely Araujo, the head of Brazil’s environmental protection agency the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) resigned Monday after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro criticized the amount of money it spends to rent vehicles, his latest attack on the agency.

23.11.2018 - 21:20 [ Junge Welt ]

Amazon kann einpacken

Der US-Monopolist Amazon warb am Freitag auf seiner Homepage: »Nur bis Mitternacht. Alle fünf Minuten neue Angebote. Nur solange der Vorrat reicht.« Die Arbeiter des Onlinekonzerns waren allerdings nicht in Shoppinglaune: An mehreren Standorten in Frankreich, Großbritannien und Spanien traten die Beschäftigten in den Ausstand. In Deutschland rief Verdi die Mitarbeiter im hessischen Bad Hersfeld und im nordrhein-westfälischen Rheinberg zum Streik auf.

20.11.2018 - 15:55 [ teleSUR ]

Roger Waters Arrives in Ecuador to Visit Indigenous Communities in Amazon Affected by Chevron

„Can I speak with someone higher up the ladder because this is ridiculous, trying to stop me from visiting these people?“ Waters asked civilly. He pleaded with the airport authority saying he’s trying „trying to help your brothers and sisters, these are your Ecuadorean brothers and sisters. We’re trying to help them.“

22.10.2018 - 10:33 [ Techdirt ]

Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg’s Big ‚Chip Infiltration‘ Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

Some companies may misrepresent things, or try to play down stories, but outright fabrication is not at all common (and the consequences of a company doing it would be severe). And here, both Amazon and Apple’s denials were so clear, so specific and so adamant that it raised serious questions about the reporting.

08.10.2018 - 05:18 [ ORF.at ]

Hype um „chinesische Spionagechips“ kommt vom Pentagon

Die Sensationsmeldung des Wirtschaftsportals Bloomberg über manipulierte Hardware für Cloud Computing stellt sich im FM4-Faktencheck als fast völlig faktenfrei heraus. Am Freitag kam ein langerwarteter Bericht des Pentagon heraus, der vor der Elektronikfertigung in China warnt.

24.09.2018 - 01:40 [ The Local.fr ]

French fountains site of protest against Total’s Brazil oil project

Fountains were tinted black in several French towns Saturday during protests against plans by oil giant Total to drill near a coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon.

The protesters insist the plan threatens a „unique“ natural habitat.

30.08.2018 - 08:44 [ CNBC ]

Amazon, in a rare political response, calls Bernie Sanders‘ claims of poor worker conditions ‚inaccurate and misleading‘

Sanders has been dinging Amazon on Twitter and in public statements for months, claiming the company doesn’t pay its lower-level employees a fair wage.
It’s a rare public response for Amazon. It has been largely silent amid repeated public attacks by President Donald Trump on the company and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.

16.08.2018 - 21:58 [ Survival International ]

Indigenous Environmental Defender killed as logging mafia targets tribe

It is not yet clear who killed him, but a powerful logging mafia has repeatedly targeted the tribe for its work protecting both its rainforest home, and the uncontacted members of a neighboring tribe, the Awá, who also live there, and face catastrophe unless their land is protected.

09.08.2018 - 10:06 [ teleSUR ]

Peruvian Amazon Launches First ‚Ancestral Knowledges Encounter‘

According to the Peruvian government, there are 55 Indigenous groups in the country, totalling 4 million people: roughly 12 percent of the population. They speak a total of 47 languages and dialectal varieties, out of which 25 are spoken in Loreto.

28.07.2018 - 11:10 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Gesichtserkennung von Amazon verwechselte US-Abgeordnete mit Verdächtigen

Amazons umstrittene Gesichtserkennungssoftware Rekognition hat in 28 Fällen die Gesichter von Kongressabgeordneten versehentlich als Verdächtige aus einer Datenbank festgenommener Amerikaner erkannt. Der grobe Fehlgriff der Software kam bei einem Test der Bürgerrechtsorganisation ACLU zutage. Rekognition wird Polizeibehörden zur Identifikation von gesuchten Straftätern angeboten und kommt in der Metropole Orlando bereits zum Einsatz.

27.07.2018 - 02:07 [ ACLU ]

Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots

Amazon’s face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern. In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool, called “Rekognition,” the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.

01.07.2018 - 12:38 [ Radio Utopie ]

Radio Utopie abonnieren und die Richtigen unterstützen

Geschätzte Leserinnen und Leser,

als wir vor elf Jahren als Medienstation begannen, gab es drei Milliarden weniger Menschen die das World Wide Web im Internet benutzten. Heute beherrschen Monopole de facto das Netz. Staatliche und kommerzielle Spionage und Manipulation sind allgegenwärtig und agieren fernab jedweder demokratisch-parlamentarischen oder gerichtlichen Kontrolle.

28.06.2018 - 10:43 [ wsws.org ]

USA: Technologiekonzerne diskutieren mit Geheimdiensten über Internetzensur

Die New York Times und die Washington Post veröffentlichten diese Woche Berichte über ein privates Treffen zwischen acht großen Technologie- und Social-Media-Konzernen und den amerikanischen Geheimdiensten, das letzten Monat stattfand. Dabei wurde über die gemeinsamen Zensurbestrebungen im Vorfeld der kommenden Zwischenwahlen im November 2018 diskutiert.

Das Treffen fand am 23. Mai im Hauptsitz von Facebook in Menlo Park (Kalifornien) statt. Unter den Teilnehmern waren Vertreter von Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Snap, Twitter und Oath, ein 2017 gegründetes Unternehmen, zu dem auch Yahoo und der Telekommunikationskonzern Verizon gehören, sowie Agenten des FBI und des Heimatschutzministeriums.

24.06.2018 - 18:45 [ The Verge ]

Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition software to police

(22.6.2018) Workers at Amazon have demanded that their employer stop the sale of facial recognition software and other services to the US government. In a letter addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and posted on the company’s internal wiki, employees said that they “refuse to contribute to tools that violate human rights,” citing the mistreatment of refugees and immigrants by ICE and the targeting of black activists by law enforcement.

15.06.2018 - 12:34 [ Splinternews.com ]

Washington Post Staffers Ask Richest Man in the World to Pay Them Fairly

On Thursday, about 400 staffers at the Washington Post signed an open letter to their newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, politely suggesting that he’s being a cheapskate in their union’s ongoing contract negotiations.

26.05.2018 - 13:16 [ Kiro7.com ]

Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

Every room in her family home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home’s heat, lights and security system.

But Danielle said two weeks ago their love for Alexa changed with an alarming phone call. „The person on the other line said, ‚unplug your Alexa devices right now,'“ she said. „‚You’re being hacked.'“

That person was one of her husband’s employees, calling from Seattle.

16.05.2018 - 11:08 [ Wikitribune ]

Amazon patents wristband that monitors and directs workers’ hands

The patent for the ultrasonic wristband was filed in 2016 by Jonathan Cohn, a senior technical program manager for Amazon Go, the checkout-less store which recently opened in Seattle.

In a statement to technology site The Verge, an Amazon spokesperson said that the speculation that it times the toilet breaks of employees is “misguided.”

16.05.2018 - 10:48 [ Fefe ]

Was ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen USA und China?

China:

Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains

Und USA:

Amazon has patented designs for a bracelet that would monitor workers’ hand movements and use vibrations – known as “haptic feedback” – to point them in the right direction if they put their hands on the wrong places.

11.05.2018 - 18:27 [ WSWS ]

Google, Amazon assist in blocking encrypted communications

On May 1, the developers of the Signal encrypted messaging application revealed that over the previous month, Google and Amazon took steps to stop Signal from continuing to bypass censorship measures in place in Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Workers, youth, journalists, lawyers and human rights advocates will no longer be able to use the application to send encrypted messages and evade government surveillance.

06.04.2018 - 12:51 [ Cnet.com ]

Silicon Valley may rethink open campuses after YouTube shooting

When a shooter opened fire on YouTube’s campus before killing herself, Silicon Valley didn’t just experience a tragedy that’s rocked other communities and prompted an intense debate over gun control in the United States. The incident may also have prompted a rethink among tech companies which have enjoyed a culture that’s embraced open spaces, including cafes, restaurants and gift shops, shared with the public.

04.04.2018 - 01:58 [ Sueddeutsche.de ]

Tech-Unternehmen: Plötzlich sind die Giganten verwundbar

Dabei war die Branche in der Vergangenheit durchaus zusammengerückt, wenn Druck von außen aufkam: Als die US-Bundespolizei FBI etwa Apple zwingen wollte, die verschlüsselten Daten eines iPhones preiszugeben, sprangen Google, Facebook und Microsoft dem Konzern zur Seite. Solcherlei Corps-Geist aber kann oder will sich die Branche in Zeiten zunehmender Probleme offenkundig nicht mehr leisten.

02.04.2018 - 02:54 [ Heise.de ]

Trump holt zum Schlag gegen Amazon aus

Allein die Gerüchte über ein mögliches Vorgehen Trumps gegen Amazon hatten den Börsenwert des Online-Händlers am Vortag zeitweise um 53 Milliarden Dollar einbrechen lassen. Nach einer kurzen Erholung gingen die Amazon-Papiere am Donnerstag erneut auf Talfahrt. Allerdings hatten die Aktien andererer Tech-Unternehmen vor Ostern ebenfalls einen schweren Stand. Auch Facebook hatte nach dem Bekanntwerden des Skandals um Cambridge Analytica erheblich Federn lassen müssen.