Amazon knows a lot about you. Customers trust that their data and purchases are kept secret and secure, but internal documents show the tech giant’s inability to safeguard its own data.
Will Evans
Senior Reporter and Producer
Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Inside Amazon’s Failures to Protect Your Data: Internal Voyeurs, Bribery Scandals and Backdoor Schemes
For years, the retail giant has been keeping something from you: It’s handled your information much less carefully than it handles your packages.
‘We’re Going to Protect Workers’: New California Law Takes Aim at Amazon’s Unsafe Work Quotas
A series of Reveal investigations has shown that Amazon’s injury rates have been far worse than the national average for the warehousing industry.
Amazon’s relentless pace is injuring workers and violating law, Washington state regulator says
The groundbreaking citation came after Reveal’s investigation into a serious injury crisis in Amazon’s warehouses.
The truth about injuries at Amazon
As a result of Reveal reporter Will Evans’ investigation into injuries at Amazon warehouses across the country last year, sources shared a trove of internal records, giving an unprecedented view into the company’s safety record.
Lawmakers demand Amazon answer for deception on worker injuries
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others want the company to account for the ways it misled the public, press and lawmakers.
How Amazon hid its safety crisis
Robots. Prime Day. Holiday peak. Internal records show Amazon has deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers.
Catching Amazon in a lie
Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers. But the numbers reveal that workers are getting hurt much more often than the company claims.
‘We’re not treated like people. We’re numbers.’
This comic shares the experiences of someone working in Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inside one of Amazon’s hardest-hit warehouses: ‘Why aren’t we closing the building?’
The company’s long-simmering tensions with its warehouse workers have spilled over in the coronavirus pandemic.