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According to a court document viewed by Engadget, the Federal Trade Commission accused Amazon of using Signal's disappearing messages feature to conceal communications as part of its antitrust suit against the company. The FTC says the retailer continued to auto-delete its communications even after the agency notified it that it was under investigation and asked it to preserve them. Founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos and current CEO Andy Jassy are among the accused.
"For years, Amazon's top executives, including founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, discuss[ed] sensitive business matters, including antitrust, over the Signal encrypted-messaging app instead of email," the FTC wrote in the full document, acquired by (Bezos-owned) The Washington Post. "These executives turned on Signal's ‘disappearing message' feature, which irrevocably destroys messages, even after Amazon was on notice that Plaintiffs were investigating its conduct."
The FTC wants a federal judge to compel Amazon to provide documents related to its data handling. The government agency says the retailer didn't disclose its Signal use until March 2022, ahead of a Wall Street Journal article highlighting
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Apple's latest MacBook Air with the new M3 chip just hit its lowest price yet at Amazon. The retailer is taking $110 off the laptop's list price, which is $10 cheaper than the sale price of $999 its been hitting lately. That's not a huge difference, but still represents a new low for the two-month-old laptop. The discount applies to all four colorways of the entry-level 13-inch model, which gives you 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. If you need more memory, you can get
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 Apple's 13-inch M3 MacBook Air, M1 iPad Air, and M3 iMac are the highlights of this week's best deals, and they include multiple record low prices across each product lineup.
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Amazon leaders' use of Signal app becomes issue in landmark antitrust case and company calls concerns "baseless."
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