Amazon_s Williams had lobbied committee Chair Tom Umberg, according to a person familiar with their discussions. Amazon has donated $9,200 to Umberg_s election campaign since he took office in 2018, campaign-finance records show.

The office has used the rules to open parallel investigations into Google's terms and conditions for data processing and the Google News Showcase, as well as tech giants Facebook and Amazon. (Writing by Rachel More Editing by Madeline Chambers and David Goodman)

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The Amazon founder first became a billionaire in 1998, the year after Amazon went public as an online bookseller and has since increased his fortune by 12,425 percent — now raking in more than $140,000 per minute.



26: An earlier version of the story incorrectly said that Bose's Frames were not available with a prescription. The sunglasses can be purchased or updated with prescription lenses in the US.





Bordering Washington, D.C., the nation_s capital, Virginia offers Amazon immense strategic benefits.
It was Virginia where Amazon Web Services, which holds lucrative contracts with defense and intelligence agencies, built one of its largest clusters of data centers.

"It falls in the category of bills that try to make you feel better about biometrics without providing meaningful protection." "It_s riddled with so many holes; it_s like a Swiss cheese," Narayan said.



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Bezos, who is estimated to be worth $131.9 billion, is the third richest man in the world after Tesla owner Elon Musk, who knocked him off the top spot with a net worth of $213.9 billion and Bernard Arnault, who oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora, according to Forbes.

They also lack cameras, outward-facing lights or a heads-up display.  Amazon's Echo Frames drew plenty of attention when they were announced last year among the company's Alexa-powered blitz of new products. Unlike Google's ill-fated Glass or Snapchat's Spectacles, Amazon's $250 specs (discounted to $180 as part of its invite-only Day One edition prelaunch) look largely like regular glasses.

Granted, it is nice to ask out loud if it's going to rain when seeing ominous clouds, and then instantaneously get an answer. In general, unless you're a big Alexa user, I'm not convinced that the smart assistant does enough to justify buying the Frames.  Alexa does a good job of calling my contacts too (though it isn't able to send an iMessage, initiate a video call or connect to WhatsApp). I also like being able to ask about any random piece of information (a sports score, say) without having to take out my phone.

The corporate-affairs operation_s rising influence on state legislation owed both to the leadership of Carney and Huseman and the growing resources at their disposal, according to former employees and Amazon records.

Unlike Google Glass, for example, Classic Books which had a small heads-up display for displaying information and Buy Books a camera for capturing the world around you, the Echo Frames are audio-only. This greatly limits their augmented reality potential in their current form and I have yet to find any Alexa skills designed for Buy Book being used out and about.

Staffers sometimes review these recordings to assess and improve the technology, Amazon said. The devices start recording when they detect a user saying a "wake word" - such as "Alexa" - that signals the start of a command or question.



It said it would prefer a federal law that "requires transparency about data practices, prohibits the sale of personal data without consent, and ensures that consumers have the right to request access to and delete their personal information." 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.

The company often used its gargantuan warehouses to host its meetings with politicians, the internal documents show. Another tactic Amazon uses to sway lawmakers, Buy Books three former Amazon public-policy staffers said in interviews, is to highlight the company_s job creation.

Marsden said Amazon referred him to what the company called a "neutral resource" on privacy issues: Stacey Gray of the Future of Privacy Forum.
Amazon has long funded the Future of Privacy Forum, budgeting $100,000 for the group in 2018, according to a public-policy planning document from the prior year. At one hearing, Marsden called Gray his "phone-a-friend" for any legislator with questions.