Amazon Halo is marketed as a sleek health and fitness tracker, but it’s really a surveillance device dressed up as wellness tech. It doesn’t just count steps—it collects deeply personal biometric, activity, and even voice tone data, feeding it into Amazon’s growing behavioral profile on you. That data lives inside the same corporate ecosystem that exploits workers, crushes small businesses, and profits from contracts with the Israeli military through AWS. Wearing a Halo means giving Amazon front-row access to your body, your habits, and your privacy.
Amazon is rated High Impact because its harms are systemic and interlocking.
Environmental Harm: Delivery fleets, aviation cargo, and data centers generate massive emissions and plastic waste, while public pledges mask lobbying against climate regulation.
Human Rights Violations: Workers face surveillance, injury-level quotas, and unsafe delivery speeds. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere face wage theft and coercion.
Military & Conflict Complicity: AWS is central to surveillance states. Project Nimbus embeds Amazon in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, supplying AI and data services to its military and government.
The result: consumer spending that powers a machine which entrenches inequality, accelerates climate collapse, and sustains state violence worldwide.