Podcast
‘Amazon’s Cloud Industrial Complex’ With Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog
On Amazon’s “cloud industrial complex” and how surveillance tech antagonize vulnerable communities
Playing for Team Human today: immigrant rights activists Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog. As the U.S. moves toward police state policies, Amazon is building the technology to serve it. Jacinta and Amy will be showing us why the people living in Queens, New York may not want to welcome Amazon’s HQ2 with open arms.
With Amazon poised to deliver on lucrative government contracts for surveillance and immigration enforcement technologies, Jacinta and Amy make it clear that the stakes are higher than just rising rents and gentrification.
On today’s episode we’ll take a hard look at Amazon’s “cloud industrial complex.” We’ll look at how surveillance technologies like Amazon’s Rekognition are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to programs that antagonize vulnerable communities.
Jacinta and Amy give Team Human listeners a critical and concrete look at the multiple intersections between our technology giants, police-state enforcement policies, and the long history of corporate profiteering on the backs of marginalized peoples.
