‘A Surveillance Company’: Rights Group Sounds Alarm After Amazon Acquires iRobot

‘A Surveillance Company’: Rights Group Sounds Alarm After Amazon Acquires iRobot
The logo of Amazon is seen at the company's logistics center in Bretigny-sur-Orge, near Paris, on Dec. 7, 2021. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
Rebecca Zhu
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Amazon’s $1.7 billion (A$2.4 billion) acquisition deal for iRobot, the creator of Roomba robot vacuums, will give the e-commerce giant another avenue to collect personal information if nothing is done to protect it, Digital Rights Watch warned.

On Friday, both companies announced they had entered into a definitive merger in an all-cash transaction.