The $1.7 billion deal could bolster Amazon’s smart home dominance.
, a group of Democratic lawmakers argued that the proposed merger would unfairly bolster Amazon’s dominance in the smart home market by acquiring one of the company’s leading competitors.
They also criticized Amazon’s data privacy and security practices following past acquisitions of companies like Ring, including data sharing partnerships“iRobot is a powerful market incumbent, and Amazon, given its vast resources, history of producing smart vacuums… and powerful platform, is an extraordinarily significant ‘potential entrant’ into the market,” the lawmakers wrote on Thursday.Sen. Elizabeth Warren led Thursday’s letter along with four other House lawmakers, including Rep.
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