Civil rights groups urge lawmakers to crack down on Amazon’s ‘dangerous’ worker surveillance

Civil rights groups are calling on lawmakers and regulators to crack down on Amazon over its system of monitoring workers’ pace.

More than 35 civil rights organizations signed a letter Monday urging action. The letter was released the same day of Amazon’s two-day Prime Day sale, which activists have criticized, arguing it increases pressure on workers.

“It is time for lawmakers and regulators to step-in and end the punitive system of constant surveillance that drives the dangerous pace of work at Amazon,” the groups wrote, according to a copy of the letter shared with The Hill.

The letter specifically calls for state and federal officials to enact laws that ban surveillance-driven discipline and control to ensure workers are protected from “abusive conditions.”