Thread by @WolfieChristl, Amazon is hiring 'intelligence analysts', who should work on 'sensitive topics that [...]

Amazon is hiring 'intelligence analysts', who should work
on 'sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company' and spy on 'organized labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders'.

Via @jfslowik / https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1026060/intelligence-analyst

Amazon's list of enemies, to be targeted by their corporate intelligence agency:

'hate groups, policy initiatives, geopolitical issues, terrorism, law enforcement, and organized labor'

...plus 'activist groups' and 'hostile political leaders'.

Here's another Amazon job listing with a similar description:
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1213610/sr-intelligence-analyst

In both cases, 'preferred qualifications' include:

'Previous experience in Intelligence analysis and or watch officer skill set in the intelligence community, the military, law enforcement...'

Props to @jfslowik, he was the one who spotted this:
https://twitter.com/jfslowik/status/1300756214574276610

And btw. Berlin Tech Workers Coalition is also hiring

https://twitter.com/TechWorkersBER/status/1300791883736772609

https://twitter.com/jfslowik/status/1300756214574276610

Oh.

"The page you're looking for seems to have disappeared"

3 hours response time ...not bad, Amazon.

Fortunately, I didn't forget to archive the job posting:
http://archive.is/jUGDA

Both job postings are also archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200901153123/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1026060/intelligence-analyst
https://web.archive.org/web/20200901142713/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1213610/sr-intelligence-analyst

I wonder whether the list of second languages is pointing to affected employee groups, or target regions, or both?

"Hindi, Tagalog, Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Brazilian Portuguese"

Anyway, here's a good summary of the issue: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats.html

Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track 'labor organizing threats' following public outcry

The job listings, which have since been deleted, sought to hire intelligence analysts capable of compiling data on internal and external threats to Amazon's business.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats.html

Some interesting details. Analysts should 'exploit' a 'broad range of Amazon data resources' and use all kinds of intelligence tech such as:

- Imagery and FMV [full motion video] analysis
- Link analysis [relationships between targets]
- GIS platforms [involves geolocation data]

Which commercial databases and analysis software do they use for investigations? For example, Thomson Reuters CLEAR & IBM i2.

(from another job listing for Amazon's corporate security dept, not directly related to union busting, but also based in Phoenix https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:meU6ndXy5usJ:https://www.amazon.jobs/it/jobs/1031803/investigations-specialist-external-investigations)

Ok, next.

"Amazon is monitoring the conversations of Amazon Flex drivers in dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain", including identifying drivers "planning for any strike or protest against Amazon": https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azegw/amazon-is-spying-on-its-workers-in-closed-facebook-groups-internal-reports-show

Amazon Is Spying on Its Workers in Closed Facebook Groups, Internal Reports Show

The company is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, according to an internal web tool and reports left on the open internet.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azegw/amazon-is-spying-on-its-workers-in-closed-facebook-groups-internal-reports-show

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