Amazon spent $10 million on blacklisted surveillance tech from China

Amazon bought $10 million worth of temperature-checking cameras from a blacklisted company accused of assisting China in its human rights abuses against Muslim minorities, Reuters reports citing sources familiar with the matter. The ecommerce giant reportedly purchased 1,500 cameras from China’s Zhejiang Dahua earlier this month to curb the spread of COVID-19 through its warehouses. [Read: Amazon warehouse worker tests positive for coronavirus day after Bezos visit] At least one third of those cameras were said to be destined for use in Amazon facilities across the US. Dahua is one of the largest makers of surveillance camera tech in the world, and its…

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