Amazon.com wants to monitor you in your sleep, for your benefit


That’s not creepy at all: Amazon wants to monitor you in your sleep. — Dreamstime/TNS

Amazon.com Inc has won US permission to use radar to monitor consumers’ sleep habits.

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday granted Amazon.com Inc approval to use a radar sensor to sense motion and “enable contactless sleep tracing functionalities”.

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