The full extent of that power is explored inIn the film, Amazon insiders say from the company's beginnings, Bezos was intent on mining data to understand how his customers thought. It has made the company a partner in the surveillance and policing industry. We should not be in the policing business," says one. "A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you.To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities).
Find our best … On CBC: Feature-length documentaries will premiere each Thursday at 8 p.m. *. "They know more about you than your best friend..."With Amazon's launch of 'Alexa,' the personal assistant, the company suddenly had the power to have a mic in every home. Looking for more tips on how to keep your kids occupied during the COVID-19 crisis? Watch Hot Docs alumni on CBC, premiering on Thursday nights now through to the beginning of September. In addition to being the fabulous Vancouver City Editor, Lindsay is also the National Sales & Marketing Director for the entire Family Fun Canada network. Looking for more tips on how to keep your kids occupied during the COVID-19 crisis? Including all five seasons of Kids In The Hall, Luther, Documentary Now! "It really concerns me to know that my work could be going towards … the creation and expansion of the surveillance state," says another in the film.We're moving quickly to a real-life version of George Orwell's Zuboff adds, "We're now contributing to systems that are fundamentally at odds with democracy and at odds with human freedom.
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Comments on this story are moderated according to ourIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onOur online behaviour can tell the company more than we think — and this could have a big impact on our lives'Amazon knows more about you than your best friend or your doctor'What you should know about Amazon before clicking 'place your order'One privacy campaigner requested her own data from Amazon, and was shocked to find that, through 100 purchases, 15,000 data points were created about her. Amazon is also developing a fleet of delivery drones which offers airborne home surveillance, detecting doors left open, broken windows, graffiti and people inside buildings.
Some of the available documentaries are: Call of the Baby Beluga, A Bee’s Diary, and How to be a Wild Elephant. Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School, says Amazon is branching out into our real lives very aggressively.With its plans for increased automation in every room of our homes, Amazon's information-gathering potential is endless. But by understanding our browsing and purchasing habits, the company can not only direct our shopping behaviour through ads and offers, it may also influence our social behaviour, says Hamed Haddadi, a senior lecturer at the "Once you have the ability to perform these activities on millions and millions of people [in] real time, then you have this uncontrolled superpower to nudge these individuals towards buying specific products, clicking on specific articles, believing in certain ideologies," he says. Amazon says the data-tracking it practices is used to improve the user experience.
He created a customer behaviour research team, which analyzed a shopper's clicks and used the information to create a virtual profile of them.