IMDb, owned by Amazon, is the world’s largest movie and TV database. What looks like an entertainment resource is also a powerful marketing and data-mining tool for Amazon, driving traffic to Prime Video and feeding user behavior data into its massive surveillance and profiling systems. Using IMDb is another way Amazon tightens its hold on media, culture, and personal information while funneling profits into a corporation complicit in exploitation and apartheid-supporting infrastructure.
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.