Amazon is hiring intelligence analysts to watch organized labor, hostile political leaders, more
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Close-up of sign with logo on facade of the regional headquarters of ecommerce company Amazon in the Silicon Valley town of Sunnyvale, California, October 28, 2018.
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As tech giant Amazon continues to grow and expand into one of the world's largest companies, regulatory pressure and labor issues continue to threaten the company's present and immediate future.
In the face of impending lawsuits for worker conditions, possible workforce unionization, but also monopoly hearings and litigations, Amazon is now hiring personnel to counter these issues.
In new job ads posted on July 22 (Senior Intelligence Analyst) and September 1 (Intelligence Analyst), Amazon is hiring intelligence analysts that will be tasked with keeping an eye on topics considered sensitive to the company's future.
According to the two job ads, Amazon currently considers a threat, items such as organized labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders, policymakers, terrorists, and law enforcement.
The two jobs will require the new hires to compile "intelligence reports" on topics that may harm Amazon and submit the reports to Amazon's legal teams and upper management, who will either take legal action or make informed decisions based on the data gathered by these new hires.
Such "intelligence personnel" are not new in the corporate world; however, such hires are usually managed through private contractors under heavy non-disclosure agreements, and not through public job postings.
The listings, spotted earlier today by Dragos threat analyst Joe Slowik, are a rarity as you don't see companies like Amazon hiring union-busters and private investigators out in the open.
While Amazon might be in its rights to hire intelligence analysts to keep an eye on foreign political leaders and the geopolitical landscape in light of the Bezos Suadi hack, many internet netizens are now questioning the company's focus on targeting its own employees and their legal right to unionize, efforts that Amazon has been successfully avoided for more than 25 years.
An Amazon spokesperson did not return a request for comment.
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