Saturday, February 09, 2019

Bezos' Very Own Tiny Petard

Yes, well, schadenfreude abounds here.

Bezos and Charlie Sykes' MSNBC state (without evidence) that The Donald ordered NSA to intercept Bezos' telephone records to his paramour, including ......ahhh..........well, you know.  Bezos and Charlie Sykes' MSNBC further allege (without evidence) that The Donald ordered NSA to send those pictures to the National Enquirer, which specializes in such stuff.  The National Enquirer then suggested to Bezos that he might want to keep his $150 BILLION mouth shut about National Enquirer.  See, Bezos owns his very own National Enquirer, called the Washington Post.

Hmmmmm.  So why the schadenfreude?

...Amazon, the company that has made Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling surveillance state. Indeed, one of the largest components of Amazon’s business, and thus one of the most important sources of Bezos’ vast wealth and power, is working with the Pentagon and the NSA to empower the U.S. Government with more potent and more sophisticated weapons, including surveillance weapons....In December, 2017, Amazon boasted that it had perfected new face-recognition software for crowds, which it called Rekognition. It explained that the product is intended, in large part, for use by governments and police forces around the world. The ACLU quickly warned that the product is “dangerous” and that Amazon “is actively helping governments deploy it.”
“Powered by artificial intelligence,” wrote the ACLU, “Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 people in a single image. It can quickly scan information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces.”

If someone in The Government does not like you, it's child's play to ruin you.  Even if Bezos' facial recognition software works perfectly (it does NOT, of course), there are other ways.

...one of the stories we were able to report using the Snowden documents, one that received less attention that it should have, is an active NSA program to collect the online sex activities, including browsing records of porn site and sex chats, of people regarded by the U.S. Government as radical or radicalizing in order to use their online sex habits to destroy their reputations. This is what and who the NSA, CIA and FBI are and long have been....

It doesn't take much intelligence to know that Bezos loves him some Surveillance State, and not much more IQ to understand that Bezos has--or can create--exactly the same capabilities as NSA.

Noteworthy:  Amazon's spying AND NSA's spying were funded by BOTH PARTIES in the Government.

And they wonder why they got Trump.

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