Tell Congress: it’s time to investigate Amazon’s surveillance empire

Members of Congress

It’s time to investigate Amazon.

Surveillance is at the heart of Amazon’s monopolistic business model.

Amazon’s Alexa records our conversations. Their Rekognition technology identifies our faces and tracks our movement in the public sphere. Their Ring doorbell company partners with local police to provide backdoor, warrantless access to mass surveillance footage collected from millions of American homes and neighborhoods.

Amazon’s ever-expanding surveillance empire threatens our privacy and civil liberties, especially in brown and black communities already vulnerable to racial profiling and heightened surveillance.

These threats are coupled with security concerns. Ring cameras don’t use end to end encryption and have already leaked customers’ Wi-Fi passwords to open networks leaving users vulnerable to cyber-attacks, hackers, and foreign governments.

Amazon needs to be held accountable. I’m calling on you to investigate Amazon.

Please work with your colleagues to subpoena Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, to appear before Congress to answer questions about Amazon’s business practices and the threats their nationwide surveillance network pose to our security and your constituents’ privacy and civil liberties.

Thank you.


To: Members of Congress
From: [Your Name]

It’s time to investigate Amazon.

Surveillance is at the heart of Amazon’s monopolistic business model.

Amazon’s Alexa records our conversations. Their Rekognition technology identifies our faces and tracks our movement in the public sphere. Their Ring doorbell company partners with local police to provide backdoor, warrantless access to mass surveillance footage collected from millions of American homes and neighborhoods.

Amazon’s ever-expanding surveillance empire threatens our privacy and civil liberties, especially in brown and black communities already vulnerable to racial profiling and heightened surveillance.

These threats are coupled with security concerns. Ring cameras don’t use end to end encryption and have already leaked customers’ Wi-Fi passwords to open networks leaving users vulnerable to cyber-attacks, hackers, and foreign governments.

Amazon needs to be held accountable. I’m calling on you to investigate Amazon.

Please work with your colleagues to subpoena Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, to appear before Congress to answer questions about Amazon’s business practices and the threats their nationwide surveillance network pose to our security and your constituents’ privacy and civil liberties.

Thank you.