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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

vice.com/en_us/article/…

simply a blockbuster by @LaurenKGurley and @josephfcox
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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yesterday an Amazon job listing for a private investigator to spy on union organizers was "an error." Then we found that Amazon already has a secret, sophisticated program and team dedicated to spying on its workers Facebook posts:

vice.com/en_us/article/…
According to our reporting, Amazon took great pains to keep this program secret: “It will have a detrimental effect if it falls within the reach of any of our Delivery partners. DO NOT SHARE without proper authentication”
A LOT going on here:

- the tool and its reports and files were left exposed on a domain called that was not obviously owned by Amazon & doesn't use Amazon infrastructure. Despite this, there are clear and direct ties back to Amazon w/in the files
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BREAKING: Leaked emails show that USPS headquarters has ordered local post offices to NOT plug back in mail sorting machines

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email is in direct contradiction with what Postmaster DeJoy said two days ago. this email or an email like it (we saw two versions) seemingly went to every maintenance head around the country
subscribe to The Mail, a newsletter where we're chronicling decades-worth of attacks on the USPS

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we have new details about today's Twitter hack. Spoke to one of the people involved in hack, they say a Twitter employee gave access. Sent screenshot of tool being used to hijack @binance

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Twitter just locked my account and made me delete a tweet about how this hack worked
Earlier, Twitter told us that it was only locking accounts that posted private personal information. The screenshot I tweeted has no personal information in it and was censored, it just shows how an internal Twitter tool
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