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Consent to being surveilled or risk getting fired, says Amazon
Remember the AI cameras Amazon said it was going to install in its delivery vans to, erm, monitor their driving behaviour? The company is now deploying them and has asked tens of thousands of its employees to consent to being biometrically surveilled.
The e-commerce giant, however, isn't really giving them much of a choice. They have to agree or they can't drive the vans at all. In short, they have to suck it up or they lose their jobs. Referring to its AI-powered cameras, Amazon said: "This technology may create Biometric Information, and collect, store, and use Biometric Information from such photographs," Vice reported.
The drivers also have to agree to Amazon potentially storing the data for up to 30 days after it was collected. Some have refused and given up their jobs. The cameras developed by Netradyne are running machine learning software to detect 16 different types of behaviour, including everything from failing to brake at a stop sign, or speeding, to not wearing a seat belt or if the camera is obstructed.
See also: Amazon ditching plans to monitor delivery drivers for mask wearing
Amazon has dropped plans to use in-vehicle cameras to record which delivery service provider (DSP) drivers are wearing masks. [...] Amazon plans to use the in-vehicle cameras to monitor safe driving behaviors, including distracted driving. In a recent training video, however, the company added mask wearing as one of the behaviors it would monitor, The Information reported.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 29 2021, @11:44PM (3 children)
"strong", hah. stop parroting party lines.
amazon could, without changing a single price, give every single employee a 100,000 dollar bonus for 2020 and still be spectacularly profitable, and bezos would still be the richest man on earth, but that would mean... paying appropriately the people who actually did something useful? [[ collective gasp ]] WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE, OLD CHAP! it's been said before but it bears repeating: rich people don't say things like "we want more money", they hide behind lies like "unions only serve themselves" or "there was an unexpected shift in operating expenses this quarter" or "taxes disincentivize investment" or (catches breath) "we can't afford that".
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @01:12AM
You are a perfect example of why America's school system failed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @09:02PM (1 child)
Fact Check:
Amazon has about 800,000 employees. $100,000 x 800,000 = $80,000,000,000
Amazon net income for 2020 was $21,300,000,000
Parent poster is wrong. Amazon could not afford to give its employees more than a $26,000 bonus each.
(And in line with all other fact check sites, the above means that Orange Man is bad and Republicans are Nazis.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @09:25PM
Orange man use hyperbole; orange man is good
Non-orange man uses hyperbole; non-orange man is obviously bad
On a side: Orange man IS bad; and Republicans ARE nazis. (I'll leave in the middle how close Democrats are to nazis)