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Order from Consumer Product Safety Commission could classify company as a distributor, making it liable for third-party products.

WSJ News Exclusive | Should Amazon Be Responsible for Everything It Sells and Ships? A U.S. Agency Will Soon Decide A Consumer Product Safety Commission order could classify Amazon as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims. Amazon says it already works to protect consumers.

A watchdog’s investigation focused on Amazon employees’ use of handheld barcode scanners to track packages at various points as they move through the warehouse. The “stow machine gun" allows the company to monitor employees to the “nearest second.”

France fines Amazon $35 million for 'excessively intrusive' monitoring of warehouse staff France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor worker performance and activity.

An Amazon worker collapsed and later died about an hour after a fire alarm went off and workers were evacuated into the bitter cold.

Amazon worker dies after London, Ont.-area plant staff sent into bitter cold following fire alarm | CBC News Amazon officials say the Ontario government is investigating an incident involving a worker at a London-area fulfilment centre who collapsed and later died about an hour after a fire alarm went off and workers were evacuated into the bitter cold.

Amazon workers put their safety and wellbeing at risk every day.

Disturbing video shows black Amazon worker as she’s attacked by white women in luxury Texas building while dropping off package Disturbing video shows a black Amazon delivery driver in Texas being savagely assaulted by two white women inside a luxury building — one of whom accused her of being a “thief” as she tried t…