The Neighbors app is Amazon’s way of turning Ring doorbell footage into a crowdsourced surveillance network. Marketed as community safety, it actually normalizes constant monitoring, racial profiling, and the sharing of private footage with police—often without warrants. It builds fear to sell more hardware and feeds data into Amazon’s ecosystem, which is already tied to state surveillance contracts like Project Nimbus. What looks like a friendly neighborhood watch is really a corporate-controlled spying tool.
A business that is not direct-to-consumer (DTC) is a business-to-business (B2B) company. B2B businesses sell their goods and services to other businesses, rather than directly to individual consumers. This means their customers are other companies, not the end-users of the product or service.
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.