Privacy experts are warning of Amazon’s growing surveillance powers following the company’s acquisition of clinic chain One Medical and iRobot, the company behind Roomba.
. One company will give them access to patients’ medical info while the other will allow them to map users’ homes via the popular Roomba home vacuum robots.
One data privacy expert commented to Business Insider that it’s “like the mythical Hydra, where you cut off one head and two more grow in its place.” Evan Greer, the director of the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future noted that Amazon has relied on surveillance to dominate the competition for years.
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