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CYBER

Inside Amazon’s Spy Campaign Against Its Own Workers

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Since the War on Terror kicked off, the military and spy industrial complex has boomed. That also includes a growth in the literal number of spies from agencies like the NSA and CIA, all serving tours, then often entering the private sector. Since then, we’ve seen how things like corporate espionage and the techniques multibillion dollar entities deploy in their interests, have seriously taken off from the trickle down of said veterans entering the workforce Now, we’re in a situation where everybody uses techniques like social media monitoring to glean intel into their own businesses. Recently, in the case of Amazon that means carrying out a fairly professional surveillance op on its own workers. Motherboard’s Lauren Gurley has the story.

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:11.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle won. The package is being delivered.

0:23.6

Since the war on terror kicked off, the military and spy industrial complex boomed.

0:28.6

That also included a growth in the literal number of spies from agencies like the NSA and CIA,

0:34.6

all serving then entering the private sector.

0:36.6

Since then, we've seen how things

0:39.0

like corporate espionage and the techniques, multi-billion-dollar entities deploy in their interests,

0:44.1

have seriously taken off from the trickle-down of said veterans.

0:48.3

Kral is now the best-known firm in an industry that pays agents over $1,000 a day and is globally worth more than a billion dollars a year.

0:57.0

Now, we're in a situation where everybody uses techniques like social media monitoring to glean intel into their own businesses.

1:04.0

Recently, in the case of Amazon, that means carrying out a fairly professional surveillance op on their own workers.

1:12.3

Motherboards Lauren Gurley has the story.

1:15.1

I'm Ben Makou and this is Cyper.

1:20.5

So Lauren, you're back on the show to talk about another incident of a company,

1:25.5

not being so, so amazing, quite creepy to some of its workers.

1:31.3

Yeah. Hi, thanks for having me back on. We did discover that Amazon has been spying on its gig workers

1:43.2

in a pretty shocking, very hyper, you know, big brother sort of way that we always knew probably was happening, but to see the details of it was pretty alarming and shed some important, interesting sort of

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