How Tech Firms Are Helping Government Violate Our Privacy
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FEATURING LISA ROSENBERG – Amazon.com has for years been positioning itself as a retailer for all things, mowing down competition wherever it can, gobbling up a lion’s share of online retail sales. But what most customers of the company may not realize is that Amazon doesn’t just want our business, it wants the government’s business.
A new report by Open the Government called Government Inc: Amazon, Government Security and Secrecy, has exposed the corporation’s controversial relationship to the national security state and law enforcement apparatus.
Read the report HERE.
Lisa Rosenberg, Executive Director of Open the Government, which just published the report, Government Inc: Amazon, Government Security and Secrecy.
**This segment was originally broadcast on May 10, 2019.