To: FTC
Sign the petition: Tell the FTC to investigate Amazon’s Roomba takeover!
Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot’s Roomba is just the latest example of the Tech Giant’s sweeping, unchecked, monopoly grip on our economy and our lives. But at a time when Amazon’s Ring camera have already created a private surveillance dragnet – that’s often shared with local law enforcement – Amazon’s Roomba takeover will allow Amazon to map the inside of people’s homes. We demand the FTC investigate and block Amazon’s takeover of Roomba!
Why is this important?
As a consumer, Amazon already knows a lot about you, but now they want to know even more. Amazon wants to be able to map the inside of your home. That’s why they recently bought out iRobot, the company that makes Roomba vacuums.
If Amazon looks like a monopoly, quacks like a monopoly, and acts like a multi-headed, ever-expanding, unstoppable monster with its tentacles in every facet of our economy and daily lives, then guess what? It’s a monopoly, and it needs to be stopped.
Sign the petition: Tell the FTC to investigate Amazon’s takeover of Roomba and stop this tech giantfrom becoming a surveillance monopoly!
Amazon is already dominating the private surveillance industry through its Ring cameras, capturing data on millions of households, neighborhoods, and passersby. But they don’t stop there. Amazon Ring also has close data-sharing partnerships with thousands of local law enforcement agencies.
Now, by acquiring Roomba, Amazon will have access inside people’s homes and be able to map out the very spaces we live in. This isn’t a joke: Amazon’s Roomba takeover could potentially end privacy for millions of Americans.1
Given Amazon’s cozy relationship with law enforcement, there’s a huge potential for abuses of power, surveillance of political protesters, and the profiteering off of intimate home data-selling to 3rd party vendors.
Amazon has already shown that it won’t stop until they know what we eat, drink, buy, read, watch, what prescription drugs we take, when we sleep, what we do in our homes, and what the shape of our homes even look like. We need government action to stop this monopoly in its tracks before it’s too late.
Sign the petition: Tell the FTC to investigate Amazon’s takeover of Roomba and stop the Tech Giant from becoming a surveillance monopoly!
Sources:
1. Wired, “The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes,” August 5, 2022.
If Amazon looks like a monopoly, quacks like a monopoly, and acts like a multi-headed, ever-expanding, unstoppable monster with its tentacles in every facet of our economy and daily lives, then guess what? It’s a monopoly, and it needs to be stopped.
Sign the petition: Tell the FTC to investigate Amazon’s takeover of Roomba and stop this tech giantfrom becoming a surveillance monopoly!
Amazon is already dominating the private surveillance industry through its Ring cameras, capturing data on millions of households, neighborhoods, and passersby. But they don’t stop there. Amazon Ring also has close data-sharing partnerships with thousands of local law enforcement agencies.
Now, by acquiring Roomba, Amazon will have access inside people’s homes and be able to map out the very spaces we live in. This isn’t a joke: Amazon’s Roomba takeover could potentially end privacy for millions of Americans.1
Given Amazon’s cozy relationship with law enforcement, there’s a huge potential for abuses of power, surveillance of political protesters, and the profiteering off of intimate home data-selling to 3rd party vendors.
Amazon has already shown that it won’t stop until they know what we eat, drink, buy, read, watch, what prescription drugs we take, when we sleep, what we do in our homes, and what the shape of our homes even look like. We need government action to stop this monopoly in its tracks before it’s too late.
Sign the petition: Tell the FTC to investigate Amazon’s takeover of Roomba and stop the Tech Giant from becoming a surveillance monopoly!
Sources:
1. Wired, “The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes,” August 5, 2022.