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“Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers an

by mhneu 6y ago

“Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.” From another Motherboard writer: https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/1330927054083264512 https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/13309270540832645... “Amazon's Global Security Operations seems to surveil literally any environmental activism, labor organizing, or social movement in Europe. One notable instance: they hired Pinkertons to infilitrate a warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland and spy on workers and managers.” —— As corporations grow in power, we have to worry about them surveilling, not just government surveillance — governments in democracies have oversight, privacy can be invaded by corporations with less oversight. A bunch of interesting tidbits in the article.

leoc 6y ago
From the thread: > In a report from November 2019, however, an analyst wrote that Amazon hired Pinkerton spies who were "inserted" into a warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to investigate an allegation that management coached job candidates on how to complete job interviews and possibly even conducted the process for them. The Pinkerton spies were posted in a Wroclaw warehouse, known as WRO1, operated by the Amazon contractor ADECCO to investigate the allegation, according to the Amazon report. "PINKERTON operatives were inserted into WRO1 ADECCO between 2019-11-19 and 2019-11-21. No identifiable evidence of coaching on behalf of the agency recruiters was observed," the document states. "Investigative actions to prove/disprove this hypothesis are ongoing." While some of Amazon's other activities listed here are concerning or worse, I can't see anything surprising or improper about the actual Pinkerton episode.

by mhneu 6y ago

leoc 6y ago

From the thread: > In a report from November 2019, however, an analyst wrote that Amazon hired Pinkerton spies who were "inserted" into a warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to investigate an allegation that management coached job candidates on how to complete job interviews and possibly even conducted the process for them. The Pinkerton spies were posted in a Wroclaw warehouse, known as WRO1, operated by the Amazon contractor ADECCO to investigate the allegation, according to the Amazon report. "PINKERTON operatives were inserted into WRO1 ADECCO between 2019-11-19 and 2019-11-21. No identifiable evidence of coaching on behalf of the agency recruiters was observed," the document states. "Investigative actions to prove/disprove this hypothesis are ongoing." While some of Amazon's other activities listed here are concerning or worse, I can't see anything surprising or improper about the actual Pinkerton episode.