Objections are that in acquiring OneMedical, which has 836,000 members and contracts with more than 9,000 employers nationwide, Amazon could gain unprecedented clout in the healthcare business by leveraging its retail potential.
This includes data on PCR test monitoring and tracing people and is ostensibly to protect citizen data privacy.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused the company of lying because it obtained sensitive health data and handed it over to others, while at the same time, reassured customers their data would remain private.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.