Posted on 02/09/2019 4:27:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald wrote a searing column on Friday documenting Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos’ extensive relationship with intelligence agencies and the deep state.
The reminder of Bezos’ corporate partnership with controversial government entities such as the CIA and NSA couldn’t come at a more appropriate time, as the Amazon founder has attracted attention for lashing out at what he calls an attempt by the National Enquirer to invade his privacy.
Bezos alleges he’s the victim of attempted blackmail on behalf of the Enquirer, which supposedly threatened to release his personal lewd photos if he didn’t shut down a potential lawsuit aimed at stopping the company’s embarrassing press coverage of the billionaire oligarch.
The multibillionaire is said to believe that a governmental agency leaked his personal photos to the Enquirer, which included embarrassing love poems and selfies to a mistress.
Greenwald’s article on Amazon’s partnership with mass surveillance entities show that Bezos has simply no right whatsoever to object to the exposure of his own digital data. Amazon has enabled surveillance structures to spy on the personal digital content of hundreds of millions of people, almost none of whom are multibillionaire oligarchs like its company founder.
The company partnered with the CIA to create a $600 million cloud computing network. It’s likely that the network will be utilized by all 17 federal intelligence agencies, doubtlessly to the effect of monitoring the private communications of American citizens.
The company has developed unprecedented facial recognition software, and shown itself more than willing to place it in the hands of government.
Speculation about Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ digital assistant has circulated widely, and it’s been revealed that the company’s patent for the device is able to ascertain the identity of its users and other sensitive information. It’s not impossible that Alexa could provide this...
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For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard. And ’t shall go hard,
But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them at the moon. Oh, ’tis most sweet
When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 4
Does Bezos shop at Dick’s Sporting Goods?
Really? You have to provide your information to register for an Amazon account...obviously they already know who you are.
Did Bozos dress up in blackface?
The rulers have walls, armed guards and privacy while the subjects have not.
If there was a Dripping With Irony award Jeffy would be a shoe-in.
The Nazi Bezos has met his match in the National Enguirer, and anyone who thinks that the CIA clowns can get this penis-focused clown out of this mess has never met the CIA morons.
“The rulers have walls, armed guards and privacy while the subjects have not.”
I’m always amused by crap like that.
The Rulers may have walls, guards and privacy, but they still end up dead.
You press the Ring doorbell. Your finger print is captured, your face, any biometrics plus the video of people and vehicles passing by.
Sold to who ever. I have read of cities wanting the data that cellphones capture. You are a dot showing up on a city map. Supposed to be for traffic and building planning but will be used for tracking.
The National Enquirer tracked Bezos easy enough. The British press was capturing text and phone calls of their celebs and the royals not too many years ago.
I do not spend one dime with Amazon or any of its vendors . Not a penny . I used to . But when they banned the Confederate flag all across Amazon I sent them back my chopped up cc’s and quit all accounts and programs . 100% permanent boycott .
Join me
It’s just what totalitarians do.
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