Bloomberg Sells Amazon's Company Towns

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 8 p.m.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by technologist Chris Garaffa, the editor of TechforthePeople.org to discuss the city council of Hamden. Connecticut banning the use of facial recognition by city officials and contractors, including police, Bloomberg’s absurd promotion of Amazon’s proposed creation of company towns and the harbingers of such an idea in the tech world, the serious surveillance and privacy concerns that already mire Amazon and what these company towns might mean on that front, and islamophobia in AI technology.