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Amazon Cutting Off Second Amendment Author from Being Able to Sell His Book

These books represent years of painstaking research and labor. The information presented is invaluable and the cost of producing limited run copies is great. [More]

Knowledge is power. Those who have it know that.

We’re the Only Ones Ringing Enough

Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock technologies by federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years. [More]

Hey, if you have nothing to hide and haven’t done anything wrong, what’s the problem?

[Via Michael G]

Work in ‘Progress’

Amazon Brings Back Controversial Anti-Theft Metal Detector Screenings for Employees: ‘Make Our Facilities More Safe and Secure’ [More]

Because nothing improves employee morale like saying “We don’t trust you.”

Of course, that starts before Day One, when companies require you to submit a urine sample, and Americans have just gone along with it.

Very few can imagine jobs without submitting to such an insulting invasion of privacy and an assumption that having to prove innocence is the American way. And fewer of us remember.

[Via bondmen]

Alexa, Thy Will Be Done

This brain implant lets people control Amazon Alexa with their minds [More]

I can see a market effort and demand to expand beyond the physically disabled.

We’re sure it won’t become the other way around…?

Nah, since when hasn’t Jeff Bezos had our best interests at heart?

Speaking of Catastrophic Either Way

1 dead after attempting to carjack Amazon delivery vehicle… “It’s catastrophic either way,” said Graff. “I am more concerned as a sponsor of reasonable gun control.” [More]

What could be more “reasonable” than controls “sponsored” by someone who admits he was oblivious as things were going down and would have been helpless if he’d been aware?

And it took two “real reporters” to write that story and they left out the main point?

And what happened to the driver?

Even if a delivery driver has a concealed carry permit, Amazon has a stringent policy restricting delivery drivers from carrying guns.

Aid and Comfort

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say [More]

Who says Bezos and Zaslav don’t have the country’s best interests at heart?

Amazon Frown

Amazon closing AmazonSmile to focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact [More]

Believe it or not, that does affect gun owner interests.

[Via Scott J]

That’ll Teach Him!

I got suspended, waiting to see if I get terminated. I don’t work for Amazon I’m a contractor. [More]

For lawful self-defense?

I wonder what bodyguarded billionaire Bezos would have to say about that if pressured by groups representing people of color? Then again, most of those are all on board with Democrat citizen disarmament…

[Via Jess]

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