After Amazon’s public relations account sent a number of tweets taunting public officials, staffers were so concerned about the “unnecessarily antagonistic” tone that a security engineer filed a suspicious activity report, believing that the company’s social media account had been … Read more
Amazon has long been at odds with Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren over their criticisms of the company’s labor and business practices. But the discord reached a new height last week when Amazon aggressively went after both on Twitter … Read more
The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke with an Amazon driver who quit the company. He said he left after Amazon installed AI-powered cameras in delivery vehicles. The decision to surveil employees has raised questions about workers’ privacy at the tech giant. … Read more
There’s an old and common narrative around Amazon that it doesn’t make money, it sells below cost, it’s subsidised by investors and in particular it’s subsidised by AWS. People tend to repeat these to each other as though they’re unquestionably … Read more
On the Clock is Motherboard’s reporting on the organized labor movement, gig work, automation, and the future of work. Amazon and companies it contracts to deliver packages across the country are facing a rash of lawsuits alleging they failed to … Read more
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few … Read more