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SCOOP: Amazon is spying on its workers in closed Facebook groups using a tool that categorizes every post their make and analyzes their sentiment, according to internal reports we have viewed

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Amazon left this tool and its reports online. They are looking, in part, for delivery drivers "planning for any strike or protest against Amazon" or "Warehouse employees complaining about poor working conditions."
It is monitoring dozens of closed driver groups in the United States, UK, Spain, according to the reports, which are delivered to Amazon corporate regularly
Amazon knows this is sensitive information and does not want workers to know they're being spied on. Login for the tool states this:
We have also just embedded a full list of communities Amazon is surveiling on so that those communities of drivers can know. Here's the list:

documentcloud.org/documents/7072…
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