In thelatest exampleof Amazon buddying up with Union force play , the ecommerce giantannounceda fresh partnership with the Department of Homeland and security and DHL dub “ Operation Fulfilled Action , ” aimed at crack down on counterfeit products .
The deal will see Amazon share information from its sprawl marketplace with theNational Intellectual Property Rights Coordination ( IPR ) Center — a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) , which is itself a division of DHS — responsible for , among other things , keep imitative consumer trade good andphony pharmaceuticalsfrom progress to U.S. soil . While the data being shared here is somewhat vague , the society stated that any apt grounds harvest there or from any “ direct review ” will be tack onto any on-going federal investigating into these shady supply chains .
With theobscene amountof online shopping that folks have been doing during the current pandemic , it shit sense that this offshoot of the DHS has been cozying up to Amazon more and more in late month . Back in May , ICEannouncedit would be partnering with Amazon and fellow ecommerce giant star Alibaba as a part of “ Operation Stolen Promise , ” in an attempt to crack down on off - label coronavirus cure and otherscammy medical sundrybeing sold across the platform . A month later , Amazonrolled outan intragroup imitative crimes division that was explicitly make to support these sort of Union investigations .
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Aside from the grocery - break partnerships , Amazon ’s literally spent years cementing contracts with ICE . Back in 2018 , employees and advocates alikeprotestedthe company ’s ongoing endeavor to pawn off its facial acknowledgement software to immigration authorities . And from the hundreds ( if not thousands ) of dollars that agencies like Methedrine and Customs and Border Protectionpay the companyin social club to house their databases on Amazon Web Services , it seems like both agencies are reliant on Amazon for more than just the episodic counterfeit case .
While Amazon prides itself on its response to counterfeits — saying that it spent over $ 500 million dollars in 2019 “ to protect customers from forgery and other form of fraud”—anyone who shops on Amazon can distinguish you that it ’s not enough . The platform is stillriddled with fakesthat sometimes come box withdangerous defect . It ’s unclear whether getting more Union financial backing than the fellowship already has will make any slit in the problem .
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