Amazon: The world’s biggest only retailer. Their founder is one of the richest men on the planet. The Great Amazon Heist, Channel 4 2023
Amazon patented cages for workers to work in in 2016. ibid.
For a while now trouble has been brewing between Amazon and sections of its workforce. And it was all coming to a head here. Coventry. ibid.
Amazon has reacted pretty badly to workers trying to form a union in the past. ibid.
They didn’t really trust their own staff at all. ibid.
It felt like we were being surveilled at every second. ibid.
‘I got back pain we well. Standing for 10 hours.’ ibid. Employee
Amazon was hotter on surveillance than health and safety. ibid.
Amazon are flooding the world with piss [bottles ejected by drivers] ibid.
Amazon don’t actually pay much tax. ibid.
The Chinese government has been using smart technology for the past two decades to create an increasingly monitored and closely controlled society. A grid-based system has been rolled out nationwide to collect data and ‘manage’ social disruptions at the grassroots level. Storyville: Total Trust: Surveillance State, captions, BBC 2024
We must mobilise the public to actively participate in security matters. ibid. enthusiast
Our phones and apps are monitored. They make changes to our profiles. ibid. critic
Another 400 million cameras are expected to be installed in the next three years. ibid. enthusiast