Amazon is suing a Washington state agency over public records requests related to its Project Kuiper satellite internet initiative. The company argues that the records contain proprietary information, including satellite designs and trade secrets, and should be exempt from disclosure. The lawsuit coincides with growing criticism of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post, particularly its decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 election.
The tech giant, in a lawsuit filed on Monday against a Washington state agency, says the records are exempt from a public records request because they contain proprietary information, though the department handling the inquiry decided that the records should be disclosed.
In the complaint, Amazon argues that the records Washington intends to hand over to the outlet include proprietary satellite designs, among other trade secrets. That information, the company says, “give it a competitive edge” over rivals and “derive their independent economic value from being generally unknown to the public at large.”
The company doesn’t seek to prevent disclosure of all of the requested records, only a subset that contains trade secrets that allegedly should be exempt from records requests. Under the Public Records Act, proprietary financial information and trade secrets aren’t subject to disclosure.
The lawsuit also claims that the release of the records threatens public safety and the integrity of public infrastructure and telecommunications networks. It seeks a court order declaring that some of the information in the records at issue won’t be given to the In the wake of the outlet’s nonendorsement, Bezos said he may not be the ideal owner of the outlet from the perspective of “the appearance” of conflict of interest but defended his decision.DealBook Summit. “The pluses of doing this were very small and added to the perceptions of bias if news media are going to try to be objective and independent.”. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.
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