It has been an issue with us since around the beginning of the last quarter of 2017. When attempting to watch a video from Amazon Prime, we would get an error of, geographical nature. Meaning that when connected using the VPN service, Amazon did not recognize the location of the Amazon Fire TV or any other android box that was connected to the home network. After disabling the VPN, flushing the DNS, then Amazon Prime Video would work without any issues. However, having the VPN service disabled did not protect our home network. In saying all that, I have contacted both Amazon and NordVPN to report the problem we were having when a VPN service was enabled. Amazon was hush, hush about the problem and it seemed that they have a policy not to say anything regarding VPN related issues. This was my conclusion after about a dozen discussions with Amazon in email or chats. I reported the problem with NordVPN regarding the Amazon Prime issue when using the VPN service, immediately, beautydrops.shop NordVPN tech support replied indicating it was a known issue and they were attempting to fix it with Amazon, but Amazon is dragging their feet in helping VPN service companies resolve is connection issues. Were you successful in connecting to Amazon? Anyway, long story short, Amazon is one of the hardest sites to hit when using a VPN service (at least using NordVPN). This was generated with GSA Content Generator DEMO!
Internal documents reveal how a former aide to Joe Biden helped the tech giant build a lobbying juggernaut that has gutted legislation in two dozen states seeking to give consumers more control over their data. Filed Nov. 19, 2021, 11 a.m. Amazon executives and staffers detail these lobbying victories in confidential documents reviewed by Reuters. In Virginia, the company boosted political donations tenfold over four years before persuading lawmakers this year to pass an industry-friendly privacy bill that Amazon itself drafted. In California, the company stifled proposed restrictions on the industry’s collection and sharing of consumer voice recordings gathered by tech devices. And in its home state of Washington, Amazon won so many exemptions and amendments to a bill regulating biometric data, such as voice recordings or facial scans, that the resulting 2017 law had "little, if any" impact on its practices, shoes according to an internal Amazon document. The architect of this under-the-radar campaign to smother privacy protections has been Jay Carney, who previously served as communications director for Joe Biden, when Biden was vice president, and as press secretary for President Barack Obama.
Hired by Amazon in 2015, Carney reported to founder Jeff Bezos and built a lobbying and public-policy juggernaut that has grown from two dozen employees to about 250, according to Amazon documents and two former employees with knowledge of recent staffing. One 2018 document reviewing executives’ goals for the prior year listed privacy regulation as a primary target for Carney. One objective: "Change or block US and EU regulation/legislation that would impede growth for Alexa-powered devices," referring to Amazon’s popular voice-assistant technology. The mission included defeating restrictions on artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, along with blocking efforts to make companies disclose the data they keep on consumers. This story is based on a Reuters review of hundreds of internal Amazon documents and interviews with more than 70 lobbyists, advocates, policymakers and their staffers involved in legislation Amazon targeted, along with 10 former Amazon public-policy and legal employees. It is the third in a series of reports revealing how the company has pursued business practices that harm small businesses or put its own interests above those of consumers.
The previous articles showed how Amazon has circumvented e-commerce regulations meant to protect Indian retailers, and how it copied products and Amazon Beauty rigged search results to promote its own brands over those of other vendors on its India platform. In a statement, Amazon said: "The premise of this story is flawed and includes reporting that relies on early, incomplete drafts of documents to draw incorrect conclusions." The company said it protects consumers’ privacy and doesn’t sell their data. Amazon said the 2018 document listing Carney’s goals to defeat privacy regulation is "out-of-date" and does not reflect the company’s current public-policy objectives. The company said it has opposed "poorly crafted" state privacy bills. Amazon’s lobbying against privacy protections aims to preserve the company’s access to detailed consumer data that has fueled its explosive online-retailing growth and provided an advantage in emerging technologies, according to the Amazon documents and former employees. The data Amazon amasses includes Alexa voice recordings; videos from home-camera systems; personal health data from fitness trackers; and data on consumers’ web-searching and buying habits from its e-commerce business.