From what you buy online to how you remember tasks to when you monitor your front door, Amazon is seemingly everywhere.
Ring provided at least 100 LAPD officers with free devices or discounts and encouraged them to endorse and recommend its doorbell and security cameras to police and members of the public.
Amazon — like any company — aims to grow. In the last few years, the company purchased the Wi-Fi startup Eero and partnered with the construction company Lennar to offer tech-powered houses. With iRobot, it would gain one more building block for the ultimate smart home — and, of course, more data. Umar Iqbal, a postdoc at the University of Washington who led the research, said he and his colleagues found Echo devices running third-party Skills, which are like apps for Alexa, that communicate with advertisers.
For companies like Amazon, data collection is more than just data, noted Kristen Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Column: Amazon’s acquisition of a medical firm may not disrupt healthcare, but could disrupt your life
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