Leaked Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups

 
The robber barons of the 21st century.
 
 
Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.
 
A trove of more than two dozen internal Amazon reports reveal in stark detail the company’s obsessive monitoring of organized labor and social and environmental movements in Europe, particularly during Amazon’s “peak season” between Black Friday and Christmas. The reports, obtained by Motherboard, were written in 2019 by Amazon intelligence analysts who work for the Global Security Operations Center, the company’s security division tasked with protecting Amazon employees, vendors, and assets at Amazon facilities around the world. 
 
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3 thoughts on “Leaked Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups

  1. Obviously, Trace. It’s been my experience that a lot of government intelligence work has been privatized. That way they don’t have to have any public accountability (pesky Freedom of Information Requests, etc.).

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