They can be fired if they accumulate 120 minutes of time off task in a single day or if they have accumulated 30 minutes of time off task on three separate days in a one-year period. The documents, filed with the National Labor Relations Board as part of a dispute at the recently-unionized Amazon warehouse in Staten Island called JFK8, reveal that workers can receive a written warning for accumulating 30 minutes of time off task in a day one time in a rolling one-year period. A new filing obtained by Motherboard gives detailed insight into how Amazon tracks and records every minute of 'time off task' (which it calls TOT) with radio-frequency handheld scanners that warehouse associates use to track customer packages. Finally, we find that Amazon's and skills' operational practicesĪre often not clearly disclosed in their privacy policies.Infamously, Amazon punishes and sometimes fires warehouse workers who it believes are wasting time at work. Smart speaker interaction leads to as much as 30X higher ad bids fromĪdvertisers. It to serve targeted ads on-platform (Echo devices) as well as off-platform We find that Amazon processes voice data to infer user interests and uses (including advertising and tracking services) collect smart speaker interactionĭata. Our results show that Amazon and third parties Leverages online advertising to measure data collection, its usage, and its To bridge the gap, we build an auditing framework that Sharing, and use by smart speaker platforms as well as third party skills

Given a number of egregious privacy breaches, there isĪ clear unmet need for greater transparency and control over data collection, Authors: Umar Iqbal, Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Daniel Dubois, David Choffnes, Athina Markopoulou, Franziska Roesner, Zubair Shafiq Download PDF Abstract: Smart speakers collect voice input that can be used to infer sensitive

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