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• @evan_greer Evan Greer on x

  Before they take it down, here's the video Amazon circulated internally to roll out what amounts to the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history: using artificial intelligence enabled cameras on their fleet of thousands of delivery vans https://www.theverge.co…

• @nickwingfield Nick Wingfield on x

  In other Amazon news, @MarkDiStef has a scoop about Amazon's plans to put video cameras, powered by AI, into its delivery vans. The cameras will monitor for speeding, hard braking, other risky behavior. Naturally, there are likely to be privacy concerns. https://www.theinformatio…

• @darakerr Dara Kerr on x

  Amazon is now using AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans to track drivers. The cameras can detect when drivers yawn or if they're not wearing a seatbelt. Drivers call the tech “unnerving” and “a punishment system.” Great scoop by @annierpalmer https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @ldignan Larry Dignan on x

  Maybe Amazon using AI cameras to track drivers has some unique spin, but not vastly different than UPS tracking. Safety, liability, productivity means tracking. https://www.techmeme.com/... UPS from back in the day https://www.npr.org/... and now: https://www.tdu.org/...

• @wolfiechristl Wolfie Christl on x

  “We chose to not have onroad practical training because it was a bottleneck” (internal memo written by a senior manager in the Amazon logistics division, on driver safety https://www.propublica.org/...) So let's fix it with tech, and put video cameras and analytics into delivery …

• @autisticb4mmr Solveig on x

  Okay, but remember this: “Some drivers said they're concerned the AI-equipped cameras will add further pressure to a job that already involves an intense workload of delivering hundreds of packages a day.” The intense workload is the root of nearly all their safety issues. https:…

• @annierpalmer Annie Palmer on x

  New: Amazon has launched AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans to track drivers. Cameras can detect if a driver is distracted, yawning or not using a seatbelt. Drivers described the cameras as “unnerving,” “Big Brother” and a “punishment system.” https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @hypervisible @hypervisible on x

  A 2019 Propublica and Buzzfeed investigation found that “Amazon's logistics operation has repeatedly emphasized speed and cost over safety...” so consider me a skeptic. https://twitter.com/...

• @kimcrayton1 @kimcrayton1 on x

  This is just a cornucopia of fucked up tech shit colliding Violates all 4 Guiding Principles https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  As with much of Amazon's massive surveillance apparatus, this appears wildly disproportionate to the threats it claims to be guarding against, e.g. package theft. https://twitter.com/...

• @markdistef Mark Di Stefano on x

  Scoop: Amazon is stepping up the surveillance of delivery workers. We can reveal the company is about to deploy new AI-video camera units to its vans which monitor everything workers do and spring to life at the first sign of incident. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...