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Amazon is working on a wearable device that can detect your emotions
Amazon wants more data.
Amazon says it was a mistake that it banned the adverts of merchants selling Christian-themed products
Amazon says it was caused by confusion of some misinformed employees.
If you delete your Alexa recordings, it doesn’t mean the transcripts are deleted
The data is deleted from Amazon’s “main” Alexa hub but still remains elsewhere on Amazon’s servers.
Amazon Echo Kids Edition is facing FTC complaints
Amazon is accused of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Amazon’s desire to fund Buzzfeed and The New York Times raises ethics questions
News media relying on big tech to survive may be a bad idea.
German Justice Minister sets her sights on Amazon Alexa privacy
She called Amazon’s vaguely-worded privacy policy “unacceptable”.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big tech
AOC described Facebook is “communications, advertising, and surveillance platform”.
Retailers are worried about the dominance of Facebook
One exec at a direct-to-customer brand is quoted as saying that they are “moving on from Facebook and Instagram.”
Amazon wants to start producing local “crime news” to increase the value of their surveillance doorbell
“Privacy-stealing, but otherwise largely useless Internet of Things (IoT) gizmo meets dystopian reality TV disguised as news – at your very doorstep!” – now there’s a headline Amazon’s future managing editor for all things “Ring” would never sign off on – and not only because it’s so cumbersome
Twitch apparently banned a user for “hate speech” for having the name “Trump” in his username
An email explaining the ban D_Trump_Apprentice69 received from Twitch said that the account was suspended indefinitely for picking an inappropriate username.
The Algorithmic Accountability Act will give tech companies the seemingly impossible task of assessing bias in algorithms
A purely legislative initiative is never going to be enough – strong engagement with the tech industry and the people involved is necessary for the measures to work efficiently.
Twitch wrongly suspends streamer TF Blade for using the “N-word”. He didn’t.
Twitch somehow thought the streamer, who had no prior offenses, used a racial slur during a stream. However, he didn’t. Twitch won’t correct their mistake.