Episode 8: "AWS Cannot Serve 2 Masters"; Antitrust and Biometrics

[Un]Sanctioned Citizen

AWS, Amazon Web Services, is at the fulcrum of a dramatic surge of attention to DHS biometric programs, US government agency contractors and new biometric payment pilots in Seattle, with the One product.
It is now facing a multifacted antitrust panel of legislation. First, as a multinational online service provider,geared to self-serving prices and its ecosystem has grating consumer consequences, that eventually may throw US identity interests "over the fence" and out of reach of US property and privacy enforcement efforts.
With China's free market prospects unraveling in Hong Kong, data transfer and monetary policy has potential to transgress US sovereign interests. Some of these technologies are running against emerging bans on facial recognition technologies and other biometric surveillance applications on a human rights administration of ethics to a world scale.
This episode covers other rays of Antitrust alongside recovering life in America after COVID-19 sees the end of its efficacy.
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Free Assange Petition: https://www.change.org/p/free-julian-assange-before-it-s-too-late-stop-usa-extradition
CBS Coverage of Apple Daily Digital closures, Arrests of Jimmy Lai & Editorial Staffers: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-kong-apple-daily-china-news-free-press-democracy-crackdown/
SOURCES: [Link dump]
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