ICE – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:45:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 https://surprise.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1422/2020/07/az_frown_klein-150x150.png ICE – Amazon Surprise https://surprise.blackblogs.org 32 32 8. Correct! we are creating jobst for international specialists https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/06/8-correct-we-are-creating-jobst-for-international-specialists/ Mon, 06 Jul 2020 08:53:17 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=206 We are bringing money and prosperity to the neighborhood. And we will massively upgrade the neighborhood, because the new Edge Tower will create 3400 jobs for specialized programmers who can afford the even higher rents. No more stupid unqualified people and the eviction of permanent residents who refuse to change. It is likely that the turnover for the upscale gastronomy in the area will also increase and existing businesses will go bankrupt. High prices will finally displace the insolvent and make way for cultivated people.
So, what do the 3400 programmers, who are supposed to do research on AI (artificial intelligence/machine learning) in the future, actually do? AI is a method for automated analysis of large amounts of data. Amazon uses AI not only for its in-house bug and servant Alexa, but throughout the company, and it is also part of AWS (Amazon Web Services). The AI-based services are helping our partners at the American deportation authority ICE to monitor, arrest and deport people. It is also used to select military targets. Like Project Maven, for example, a US military project that uses AI to identify targets such as buildings, cars, and people. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on July 20 in Colorado, our Vice President Carlson said: “We are committed to our customers and are fully committed to the U.S. government and the governments we work with around the world.
This statement was met with outrageous protest from Amazon workers.
 
Independent research
Worldwide we employ hundreds of so-called “Amazon Scholars”: scientists who do research at public institutions, financed mainly by them, but who are also in the service of Amazon.
By awarding the “Amazon Research Award” and promoting company start-ups directly emerging from research, we ensure that research is conducted in an industry-specific manner in the spirit of Amazon. We acquire research results and create dependencies. Amazon Scholars are e.g. Bernhard Schölkopf heads the Department of Machine Learning at the Max Planck Institute and is considered one of the leading experts in this field in Europe. And Black is a specialist in Machine Vision and AI techniques for detecting human body movements. His company, Body Labs, was recently acquired by Amazon. Both are employed as researchers in government institutions, but also receive money from Amazon. This allows us to cleverly influence the direction of government research.
]]> 9. Correct! Amazon’s image recognition software and cloud servers. https://surprise.blackblogs.org/en/2020/07/05/9-correct-amazons-image-recognition-software-and-cloud-servers/ Sun, 05 Jul 2020 09:06:53 +0000 http://surprise.blackblogs.org/?p=213 We promote security, patriotism and nationalism. Everyone should go where they culturally belong – except our specialists, of course. That’s why Amazon Cloud AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides services for the US foreign intelligence agency CIA and some homeland security and police agencies in the US. With JEDI we are currently applying for the largest service contract in the history of the Pentagon. Here, methods of Machine Learning will be integrated into the data processing of the US military. We have already sold facial recognition “Recognition” to several police and border patrol agencies in the USA, including the inevitably racist migration authority ICE. This enables surveillance cameras to match even large crowds of people with millions of digitally captured faces and identify people in virtually real time. The German Federal Police also use AWS to archive video and audio recordings taken with so-called body cams in action.
Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon and now the richest man in the world with over 100 billion, is committed to control and surveillance and is keen to support the CIA and NSA with the latest developments.
 
Amazon’s home surveillance technology “Ring” features a smart doorbell with motion sensors and video. This enables the remote monitoring of your front door. To ensure your comfort, we have to record who wants what and when at your front door. In the USA, the police and security authorities can gain access to the individual cameras relatively easily, which makes us proud and serves your security.
 
At the same time, Alexa gives us access to private conversations in many households, which are recorded and analyzed. In the past, there have been repeated data leaks and unauthorized access by the German secret services. We are sincerely sorry about this, because we would like to have the data only for ourselves and to decide ourselves how to pass it on. US secret services already have access to any data collected by Amazon.
 
With the Amazon “language assistant” Alexa, most users associate a female name and a female voice. Always listening, friendly and submissive, “she” executes almost all commands. Hereby Amazon reproduces and strengthens a stereotypical image of women. Even with sexual demands “she” keeps a friendly tone. Alexa’s submissiveness is not surprising, since the principle of command and execution is already ingrained in computer science, which is still a largely male-dominated field of work today. 60 percent of the women working in Silicon Valley reported having experienced sexual harassment in their work environment. The former entertainment director of Amazon Roy Price was also suspended for sexual harassment.
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