Amazon's delivery workers must agree to AI surveillance or risk losing their jobs, re

[Sweet_Jenkins]

Amazon's obsession with efficiency is well-documented at this point. The tech giant does everything it can to push workers to their limits, and encourage them to work harder in the name of supporting the massive, two-day-shipping empire Amazon has created. The latest efficiency-boosting measure the company has implemented is a bit more forceful than others, though.
Since February, Amazon's delivery drivers (those working directly under the company, or for any of Amazon's partnered delivery agencies) have been working alongside new AI-powered cameras intended to track most aspects of their driving. The cameras, produced by Netradyne, look out for things like improper breaking, unsafe turns, driver drowsiness, phone usage, and more.

If Amazon detects unsafe driving, it can use in-car alerts to warn the driver that their performance is flagging. The cameras may also take photographs of the driver for security or identity verification purposes.


Unfortunately, if you're an Amazon driver (or a driver for an affiliated company) who would prefer not to be monitored so closely, you may not have a choice. The tech behemoth is asking delivery personnel to sign a "Vehicle Technology and Biometric Consent" agreement, as a "condition of delivering Amazon packages."

In other words, if you don't want to play ball, you're fired. Or, at least, can no longer deliver Amazon packages -- which probably leads to the same outcome. Vice reports that this agreement is live "nationwide," so it's unlikely that many of Amazon's 75,000 drivers will escape its grasp.

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https://www.techspot.com/news/89037-amazon-delivery-workers-must-agree-ai-surveillance-or.html

[retired]

A company I worked for used a similar (not AI) technique but abandoned in less than 6 months.
dumping drivers and the word gets around ...nobody wanted to work there. Looks like drones are the next thing

[Sweet_Jenkins]

A company I worked for used a similar (not AI) technique but abandoned in less than 6 months.
dumping drivers and the word gets around ...nobody wanted to work there. Looks like drones are the next thing

I think that such surveillance would be heavily opposed in the starting but eventually, it would become the standard norm. All the major companies would point that having such a system would help security and blah blah to convince their employees.

[nsan3]

I personally do not like AI monitoring anyone, for the plain reason that it invades PRIVACY. Though AI is not a real person, the system/machine relays back the captured info to people (who are real humans). What they do next with that info is pretty had to guess. So hope that such measures be discouraged by the community at large.

[ChocoFudge]

As always, amazon wants to abuse their employees without even buying them dinner first.

[AdobeWall]

Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Great Sense of Humor,” Leaked Document Reveals

Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”

Amazon’s small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” which sought to train and dispatch select employees to the social media trenches to defend Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.

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https://theintercept.com/2021/03/30/amazon-twitter-ambassadors-jeff-bezos-bernie-sanders/

[ChocoFudge]

Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Great Sense of Humor,” Leaked Document Reveals

Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”

Amazon’s small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” which sought to train and dispatch select employees to the social media trenches to defend Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.

Looks like bernie is superman to bezos' lex luthor