Amazon is also offering users the opportunity to save all scanned images to their phone’s local image gallery before the app and the dashboard become non-accessible. To recall, the “Body” opt-in feature that ships with the Halo wearables asks users to take a full-body image in minimal clothing for the sake of body fat analysis and creating a long-term profile. Those images were stored and processed in Amazon’s cloud, which requires quite some leap of faith given Amazon’s own track record with safeguarding sensitive user data.
The Halo project had raised eyebrows from its first innings, primarily because of the sheer scope of data that Amazon’s hardware sought to harvest, which included everything from sensor data to copies of full-body images and even 24/7 voice analysis for the Tone service. Such was the privacy scare that even Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote an open letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, highlighting the security and antitrust implications of Amazon’s project.
As for the employees in the Halo division, Amazon hasn’t given a figure about the layoffs. However, the company is promising “separation payment, transitional health insurance benefits, and external job placement support” to the employees parting ways with the Halo division. The layoffs are not unexpected, as Amazon has announced two rounds of organizational restructuring in the past few months that have seen a record number of employees losing their jobs.
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