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belter
A employee of an Amazon contractor...

Article is clear as mud, and its sourcing Bloomberg, on who has sketchy reputation on this type of stories.

channeleaton
I’ve come across two of these in the last few years of running interviews.

All you have to do is ask about where they live and what they like about it. One, when asked about living in a dead-flat suburb of Houston, said he liked the mountains.

vablings
Easy workaround, AI & LLMS can generate you a random area you live and a simple profile from the perspective of people

What do you like about New Jersey?

"I like New Jersey for its proximity to NYC and Philadelphia, the huge variety of food (from diners to boardwalk pizza), and the great beaches and boardwalks like Asbury Park and Cape May."[1]

[1]: gpt5-mini on duck duck ai chat

the_biot
When you work for Amazon, your computer is monitored to the point they check your keyboard typing speed. Dystopian doesn't even begin to describe it.
hulitu
And you have to pee in a bottle. Good luck if you have to do nr. 2.
keyle
Mind boggling. But well done Amazon.

So if I'm reading this right, all the NK perpetrators have to do "next time", is to have a local remote-desktop as a proxy?

deafpolygon
This is kind of dystopian if you think about it — they’re collecting all kinds of data from their workers. They probably can clock you in and out of your bathroom breaks automagically at some point soon.
wh_123
True, something Microsoft wants to do with teams data.
wh_123
This is a side channel defense.
burnt-resistor
Amazon doesn't care that it hired malnourished slaves in sanctioned countries or that warehouse workers are subjected to extreme screening procedures and lack of accommodations to universal biology that lead to urination in bottles in the US and UK, they only care that it makes them lose profits from boycott blowback from bad PR.