"Amazon is forcing its employees to brand themselves with stickers indicating they’ve received a COVID-19 vaccination, even if they’d prefer to keep that medical decision private. This move also forces employees to disclose if they have not received a vaccine...
If you do not wish to reveal your vaccination status, or simply do not want to take a vaccine, you will be forced to keep on a mask and go without a sticker. It’s like a reverse Scarlet letter."
#Amazon
#COVID19vaccines #Privacy #PrivacyMatters https://mynorthwest.com/2939760/rantz-amazon-branding-vaccinated-employees-forces-private-covid-decisions-public/ via @Mynorthwest
If you do not wish to reveal your vaccination status, or simply do not want to take a vaccine, you will be forced to keep on a mask and go without a sticker. It’s like a reverse Scarlet letter."
#Amazon
#COVID19vaccines #Privacy #PrivacyMatters https://mynorthwest.com/2939760/rantz-amazon-branding-vaccinated-employees-forces-private-covid-decisions-public/ via @Mynorthwest
MyNorthwest.com
Rantz: Amazon brands vaccinated employees, forces private COVID decisions public
Amazon is forcing employees to brand themselves with stickers indicating they're vaccinated, even if they'd prefer to keep that medical decision private.
#Alexa voice assistant "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
#AI #Amazon #Evil
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383
#AI #Amazon #Evil
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383
BBC News
Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny
Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again.
Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care
#Amazon #Healthcare
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/business/article264881134.html
#Amazon #Healthcare
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/business/article264881134.html
Hilton Head Island Packet
Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care
Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service it’s spent years developing.
“If a Panera guest has previously enrolled in Amazon One at Amazon Go, Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, or other locations such as airports and stadiums, they will not need to re-enroll at Panera,” the company said. Customers are able to link their MyPanera account to their Amazon One ID if they have one already." 😳
#Panera #Amazon #AmazonOneID #DigitalID
https://www.masslive.com/business/2023/03/panera-bread-pairs-with-amazon-to-bring-palm-scanning-tech-to-some-cafes.html?fbclid=IwAR36geBQhO92Tj77RtSs9k-GDwPNHKGxY2BdQTgHW29vNXW-reA3cRSBcig
#Panera #Amazon #AmazonOneID #DigitalID
https://www.masslive.com/business/2023/03/panera-bread-pairs-with-amazon-to-bring-palm-scanning-tech-to-some-cafes.html?fbclid=IwAR36geBQhO92Tj77RtSs9k-GDwPNHKGxY2BdQTgHW29vNXW-reA3cRSBcig
Mass LIVE
Panera Bread pairs with Amazon to bring palm-scanning tech to some cafés
Panera Bread plans to rollout Amazon One palm-scanning technology as a part of its loyalty program at a handful of locations.
"Ring employees and those who worked for a third-party contractor in Ukraine could access and download every customer’s videos, with no technical or procedural restrictions on the practice before July 2017, the FTC alleged."
#Amazon #Ring #Alexa #BigBrother
#Privacy #PrivacyMatters
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/ftc-sues-amazon-over-ring-doorbell-privacy-violations.html
#Amazon #Ring #Alexa #BigBrother
#Privacy #PrivacyMatters
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/ftc-sues-amazon-over-ring-doorbell-privacy-violations.html
CNBC
Amazon to pay over $30 million in FTC settlements over Ring, Alexa privacy violations
Amazon settled two lawsuits with the FTC on Wednesday over alleged privacy lapses in its Alexa and Ring units.
FTC sues #Amazon, alleging it has an illegal monopoly in online marketplace
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/ftc-sues-amazon-alleging-it-has-an-illegal-monopoly-in-online-marketplace
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/ftc-sues-amazon-alleging-it-has-an-illegal-monopoly-in-online-marketplace
Washington Examiner
FTC sues Amazon, alleging it has an illegal monopoly in online marketplace
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general filed a suit on Tuesday against Amazon, alleging the company is engaging in anticompetitive practices that have pushed other companies out of the marketplace.
#Amazon testing drone prescription deliveries in College Station
#BigTech #BigPharma #Drones #Pharmaceuticals #Drugs
https://www.khou.com/article/life/amazon-drone-delivery-prescriptions/285-2931727a-44dd-4a3e-b3cd-b1ad42401473
#BigTech #BigPharma #Drones #Pharmaceuticals #Drugs
https://www.khou.com/article/life/amazon-drone-delivery-prescriptions/285-2931727a-44dd-4a3e-b3cd-b1ad42401473
#Amazon can now be your doctor. 🤦♀️
https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-can-now-treat-your-cough-cold-or-flu-replacing-the-need-to-see-your-doctor/
https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-can-now-treat-your-cough-cold-or-flu-replacing-the-need-to-see-your-doctor/
Cord Cutters News
Amazon Can Now Treat Your Cough, Cold, Or Flu, Replacing The Need to See Your Doctor | Cord Cutters News
Amazon will let people too busy to make a doctor appointment consult with a clinician on a quick video chat or through direct messages through its Amazon Virtual Clinic and get prescriptions to help address colds, coughs, or the flu. With Amazon Clinic, you…
Email trove shows Amazon 'censored' vaccine books after pestering from White House, Jim Jordan says
#BidenAdmin #WhiteHouse #Censorship #Vaccines #COVID19vaccines #Amazon #BigTech
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/email-trove-shows-amazon-censored-vaccine-books-pestering-white-house-jim-jordan-says
#BidenAdmin #WhiteHouse #Censorship #Vaccines #COVID19vaccines #Amazon #BigTech
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/email-trove-shows-amazon-censored-vaccine-books-pestering-white-house-jim-jordan-says
Fox Business
Email trove shows Amazon 'censored' vaccine books after pestering from White House, Jim Jordan says
Rep. Jim Jordan revealed internal emails showing the White House pestered Amazon about its handling of COVID-19 and vaccine-related content.
Was #Amazon 'Free to Ignore' White House Demands That It Suppress Anti-Vaccine Books?
#Censorship #Vaccines #BigTech
https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-free-ignore-white-house-205530837.html
#Censorship #Vaccines #BigTech
https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-free-ignore-white-house-205530837.html
Yahoo News
Was Amazon 'Free to Ignore' White House Demands That It Suppress Anti-Vaccine Books?
The Biden administration's interference with bookselling harks back to a 1963 Supreme Court case involving literature that Rhode Island deemed dangerous.
*Watching the injectable-weight-loss-drug-disaster happen in real time*
#BigPharma #Amazon #Mounjaro #Zepbound #Ozempic #Wegovy
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/eli-lilly-teams-amazon-offer-200455970.html
#BigPharma #Amazon #Mounjaro #Zepbound #Ozempic #Wegovy
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/eli-lilly-teams-amazon-offer-200455970.html
Yahoo Finance
Eli Lilly teams with Amazon to offer home delivery of its weight-loss drug
Amazon Pharmacy will now deliver prescription medications for diabetes, obesity and migraines directly to patients' doors.
#Mercury exposure widespread among Yanomami tribe in #Amazon, report finds
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mercury-exposure-widespread-among-yanomami-175149138.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mercury-exposure-widespread-among-yanomami-175149138.html
Yahoo News
Mercury exposure widespread among Yanomami tribe in Amazon, report finds
Many Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday by Brazil’s top public health institute. The research was…