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Amazon was the last major tech company to issue a “transparency report”
detailing what kinds of law-enforcement requests they’d serviced, and
where; when they finally did start issuing them, they buried them on
obscure webpages deep in their corporate info site and released them
late on Friday afternoons.

But it’s not just heel-dragging and obfuscation that makes Amazon’s
transparency reports so deficient: they’re also extremely coarse, with
no breakout based on the types of products implicated in the
law-enforcement requests the company receives. That would be cause for
concern in any company with so many diverse product lines, but it’s
especially worrisome because Amazon sells a line of internet-connected,
always-on microphones (including a line of camera-equipped devices
intended for use by undressed people in their bedrooms!) and the potential for invasive official spying is thus off-the-charts bad.

Amazon’s latest report shows a crazily high spike in law enforcement
requests, but the company will not say which products or services were
implicated by these requests. With 35 million Amazon speakers in
American homes, this is worse than negligent.

Just one more reason that no one should own one of these things.

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