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2025-06-13

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Catalonia’s Labour Inspectorate fines Amazon for workplace surveilance

The surveillance tools used in their warehouses and delivery was not transparent enough for the regulators. The fine of €2401 has mostly a symbolic nature, but it is the first fine of the new “rider law” from 2022 that regulates platform workers such a delivery drivers. The total amount of fines for labour violations found in the end of 2024 might be around €100k by estimation of the union CCOO.

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2025-03-28

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Local voice processing to be removed from Alexa

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Amazon announced to remove the capability of its Alexa devices to do local voice recognition from its (your) devices. Now all speech recordings will be sent to the cloud, but at least Amazon won't store them. It has hinted this is because of new “AI” features under the name “Alexa+” in the future. In the past Amazon has passed voice recordings of its customers to the police as evidence, and let workers around the word transcribe recordings to “improve Alexa's performance”.

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