Amazon is hiring 'intelligence analysts', who should work
on 'sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company' and spy on 'organized labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders'.
Via / amazon.jobs/en/jobs/102606
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Amazon's list of enemies, to be targeted by their corporate intelligence agency:
'hate groups, policy initiatives, geopolitical issues, terrorism, law enforcement, and organized labor'
...plus 'activist groups' and 'hostile political leaders'.
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Here's another Amazon job listing with a similar description:
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/121361
In both cases, 'preferred qualifications' include:
'Previous experience in Intelligence analysis and or watch officer skill set in the intelligence community, the military, law enforcement...'
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Props to , he was the one who spotted this:
twitter.com/jfslowik/statu
And btw. Berlin Tech Workers Coalition is also hiring 🤖
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BREAKING: We are hiring a "counter intelligence analyst" whose job is to infiltrate Amazon, and find out what Amazon knows about union organizing. Bonus for experts in workplace safety conditions and deciphering complicated acronyms like @_verdi, @SEIU, @NLRB, @ILO, @WTF... twitter.com/WolfieChristl/…2
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Oh.
"The page you're looking for seems to have disappeared"
3 hours response time ...not bad, Amazon.
Fortunately, I didn't forget to archive the job posting:
archive.is/jUGDA
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Both job postings are also archived here:
web.archive.org/web/2020090115
web.archive.org/web/2020090114
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I wonder whether the list of second languages is pointing to affected employee groups, or target regions, or both?
"Hindi, Tagalog, Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Brazilian Portuguese"
Anyway, here's a good summary of the issue:
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Some interesting details. Analysts should 'exploit' a 'broad range of Amazon data resources' and use all kinds of intelligence tech such as:
- Imagery and FMV [full motion video] analysis
- Link analysis [relationships between targets]
- GIS platforms [involves geolocation data]
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Which commercial databases and analysis software do they use for investigations? For example, Thomson Reuters CLEAR & IBM i2.
(from another job listing for Amazon's corporate security dept, not directly related to union busting, but also based in Phoenix webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache)
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Ok, next.
"Amazon is monitoring the conversations of Amazon Flex drivers in dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain", including identifying drivers "planning for any strike or protest against Amazon":
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Seems that Amazon put a 'clean' version of the 'Intelligence Analyst' job advert back online:
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/102606
Here are the archived versions of the original job adverts:
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Both job postings are also archived here:
web.archive.org/web/2020090115
web.archive.org/web/2020090114
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