A Hamilton Beach Smart Coffee Maker that could eavesdrop, an Amazon Halo fitness tracker that measures the tone of your voice, and a robot-building kit that puts your kid’s privacy at risk are among the 37 creepiest holiday gifts of 2020 according to Mozilla. Researchers reviewed 136 popular connected gifts available for purchase in the […]
A group of more than a dozen privacy and civil rights organizations on Thursday demanded that Amazon disclose information about breaches of election data in order to increase the company’s public transparency ahead of November. Groups including Color of Change and Demand Progress cited past incidents reported by Reuters that involved voter data, stored on […]
“This morning’s email to some of our employees was sent in error,” Amazon emailed reporters just before 5 p.m. Eastern time. “There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok.” Company spokeswoman Jaci Anderson declined to answer questions about what caused the confounding turnaround or error. The initial internal email, which […]
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