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Report: Amazon Worker Who Died in Warehouse Collapse Wasn’t Allowed to Leave

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One of the victims who was killed when a tornado collapsed an Amazon Warehouse in Illinois texted his girlfriend before the deadly tornado struck saying that the company had ordered him to hold off driving home and stay put until the storm passed.

Larry Virden, 46, was killed on Friday night when the roof came down at a massive Amazon facility.

“I got text messages from him. He always tells me when he is filling up the Amazon truck when he is getting ready to go back…I was like ‘ OK, I love you.’ He’s like, ‘well Amazon won’t let me leave until after the storm blows over,’” his girlfriend of 13 years, Cherie Jones, told The Post on Sunday.

She said the text was sent around 8:23 p.m., 16 minutes before the tornado reportedly touched down at 8:39. The couple lived in nearby Collinsville, which Jones said is about 13 minutes away from the warehouse.

“We heard the tornado didn’t touch down until 8:39 so he had 20 minutes to get home,” she said. (Read more from “Report: Amazon Worker Who Died in Warehouse Collapse Wasn’t Allowed to Leave” HERE)

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Here Are All the Intimate Details Amazon Knows About Us

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. . .The company gathers a vast array of information on its US customers, and it started making that data available to all upon request early last year, after trying and failing to defeat a 2018 California measure requiring such disclosures. (US Amazon customers can obtain their data by filling out a form on Amazon.com.) . . .

Amazon collects data on consumers through its Alexa voice assistant, its e-commerce marketplace, Kindle e-readers, Audible audiobooks, its video and music platforms, home-security cameras and fitness trackers. Alexa-enabled devices make recordings inside people’s homes, and Ring security cameras capture every visitor.

Such information can reveal a person’s height, weight and health; their ethnicity (via clues contained in voice data) and political leanings; their reading and buying habits; their whereabouts on any given day, and sometimes whom they have met. . .

One reporter’s dossier revealed that Amazon had collected more than 90,000 Alexa recordings of family members between December 2017 and June 2021 – averaging about 70 daily. The recordings included details such as the names of the reporter’s young children and their favorite songs.

Amazon captured the children asking how they could convince their parents to let them “play,” and getting detailed instructions from Alexa on how to convince their parents to buy them video games. Be fully prepared, Alexa advised the kids, to refute common parent arguments such as “too violent,” “too expensive” and “you’re not doing well enough in school.” The information came from a third-party program used by Alexa called “wikiHow” that provides how-to advice from more than 180,000 articles, according to Amazon’s website. (Read more from “Here Are All the Intimate Details Amazon Knows About Us” HERE)

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WATCH: Woman Finds Amazon Folder With Thousands of Audio Recordings From My Home Gadgets

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A woman was shocked to discover just how much data Amazon has collected about her.

She posted a viral TikTok video explaining how she requested to see the data but wasn’t expecting to receive so much.

TikToker my.data.not.yours explained: “I requested all the data Amazon has on me and here’s what I found.” . . .

She said: “When I downloaded the ZIP file these are all the folders it came with.”

The TikToker then clicked on the audio file and revealed thousands of short voice clips that she claims Amazon has collected from her smart speakers. (Read more from “Woman Finds Amazon Folder With Thousands of Audio Recordings From My Home Gadgets” HERE)

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Amazon Fined $886M Over Privacy Concerns

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On Friday, Amazon disclosed its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing that the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD), Luxembourg’s data protection group, had fined the retail giant €746m (or $886m).

The fine, issued on July 16, is the largest fine on record under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. The CNPD issued the fine because Amazon’s European headquarters are located in Luxembourg.

Investigation into Amazon’s privacy concerns began after French privacy advocacy group La Quadrature du Net waged a complaint in 2018 over how the company obtains information for targeted advertisements. In a blog post, La Quadrature du Net wrote that the decision to fine Amazon “comes after three years of silence that made us fear the worst.” (Read more from “Amazon Fined $886M Over Privacy Concerns” HERE)

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Perfect Timing! Pelosi’s Husband Bought Amazon Call Options Before Pentagon Announced New Contract With Company as Top Candidate

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Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), bought Amazon call options just six weeks before the Pentagon announced it was canceling a multi-billion dollar contract with Microsoft and starting a new one that opened a door for Amazon’s participation.

The Biden Pentagon on Tuesday abruptly announced it was canceling its multi-billion JEDI cloud services contract with Microsoft and starting a new one that Amazon could compete for.

Amazon had been favored to win the JEDI contract after the idea for a single cloud infrastructure was first conceived in 2017, but it was ultimately awarded to Microsoft in 2019. Amazon sued, arguing they lost due to then-President Donald Trump’s personal dislike of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. A Pentagon inspector general report found that Trump did not interfere in the contract.

The Pentagon said the new contract, “Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability” or JWCC, would be “multi-vendor” and “multi-cloud” and explicitly named Microsoft and Amazon as the two top contenders[.] (Read more from “Perfect Timing! Pelosi’s Husband Bought Amazon Call Options Before Pentagon Announced New Contract With Company as Top Candidate” HERE)

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WATCH: Amazon Driver Attacks Elderly Woman Who Disagreed With ‘White Privilege’ Lesson

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Amazon driver Itzel Ramirez, 21, is behind bars after pummeling a 67-year-old woman after allegedly telling her to “check her white privilege.”

The trouble started when the unidentified victim received a notification that her package had arrived. She went to the front door of her apartment complex, didn’t see the package, and inquired about it to Ramirez because she was wearing an Amazon vest. Ramirez told the soon-to-be victim that she would have the package shortly. After waiting 15 minutes in the lobby, the victim asked Ramirez abut the package again and that’s when the mayhem began.

KTVU reported that Ramirez told the woman to “check her white privilege.” The victim is alleged to have said, “Well you don’t have to be a b**** about it.” As the woman was walking away, Ramirez attacked her from behind and punched her repeatedly in the face, even breaking the victim’s nose.

[Video contains explicit content.]

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Amazon Reveals When Bezos Will Step Down as CEO

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced the date that he will step down from his current role with the company.

Bezos, who helms the country’s second-largest company by revenue, announced on Wednesday during Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting that he will step down on July 5 and be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently heads Amazon Web Services.

“We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago,” Bezos said during the virtual gathering.

After his departure, Bezos will transition into the role of executive chairman of the Amazon board. The company announced that Bezos was leaving the chief executive position in February in its fourth-quarter financial results. It also announced at the time that Jassy, who has been with Amazon since 1997, would be replacing Bezos. (Read more from “Amazon Reveals When Bezos Will Step Down as CEO” HERE)

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Revealed: Amazon’s Black Lives Matter Donation Tied to Convicted Terrorist

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Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for “organizations supporting justice and equity,” including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist. It’s a major oversight for Amazon, the self-anointed arbiter of domestic terrorism.

Amazon’s ties to Rosenberg are fully exposed in Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption, my new book revealing the secret ties between the establishment media, Big Tech, and the activist left.

Rosenberg, a former member of the Weather Underground, came to national prominence as a central figure in the May 19 Communist Organization, a group responsible for a series of violent incidents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among May 19’s best-known crimes is the group’s role in the 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck which resulted in the murders of two policemen and a security guard.

The group also claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol. According to historian William Rosenau, May 19 “also bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, and the South African consulate in New York, D.C.’s Fort McNair and Navy Yard” over a 20-month period. (Read more from “Revealed: Amazon’s Black Lives Matter Donation Tied to Convicted Terrorist” HERE)

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Amazon Employees Accessed Mailbox for Union Election Ballots, Worker Says

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A mailbox that was supposed to be accessible only to the US Postal Service was unlocked by two Amazon security guards during a contentious union election in Alabama, according to testimony from worker Kevin Jackson in a hearing Friday. As he was finishing up a night shift, Jackson saw the guards going through the opened mailbox for “a minute or two” as though looking for something, he said, adding that he later saw Amazon employees locking and unlocking the mailbox multiple times.

The testimony came at a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board that will consider complaints from the union that Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted to reject in an election that ended in April. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union claims that Amazon’s actions during the election amounted to illegal influence on the vote. It was the first union election at an Amazon facility in seven years.

Amazon has said the company had no access to the mailbox, and repeated that statement in response to Jackson’s testimony. (Read more from “Amazon Employees Accessed Mailbox for Union Election Ballots, Worker Says” HERE)

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Amazon Illegally Fired Workers Who Spoke Against Company

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Amazon is facing more heat after the National Labor Relations Board determined that it illegally fired two of its employees who were voicing concerns about the company.

The labor board found that Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, who worked as user experience designers at the company’s Seattle headquarters, were fired because of their activism. They began criticizing the company in 2018 and were terminated in April of last year.

An official with the NLRB told the Washington Examiner on Monday that the board found merit with their claims and that if Amazon does not settle with the women, Seattle’s regional director will file a complaint accusing Amazon of unfair labor practices.

“It’s a moral victory and really shows that we are on the right side of history and the right side of the law,” Cunningham told the New York Times. (Read more from “Amazon Illegally Fired Workers Who Spoke Against Company” HERE)

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