Journalists hid an AirTag and traced rare-book bulk buys to Amazon's AI scanning op
IntCyberDigest · x · 2026-08-17
Journalists hid an AirTag in a rare-book shipment and traced it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to a scanning operation codenamed VGT3 that feeds Amazon's AI training data. Workers there reportedly cut the bindings off books to scan them faster. Amazon declined to explain why the books are destroyed.
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