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How Amazon used $180,000 bulletproof panels to protect CEO Jeff Bezos

Amazon installed bulletproof panels at the Seattle office of its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos -- designed to withstand multiple shots from a military assault rifle, the media reported. 

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How Amazon used $180,000 bulletproof panels to protect CEO Jeff Bezos
Amazon installed bulletproof panels at the Seattle office of its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Reuters

Amazon installed bulletproof panels at the Seattle office of its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos -- designed to withstand multiple shots from a military assault rifle, the media reported. According to a report in The Daily Beast on Tuesday, the bulletproof project to safeguard Bezos, who has a net worth of $120 billion, cost Amazon $180,000. Although the cost is less, "it demonstrates the lengths Bezos is willing to go to guard against real or perceived threats as his public profile grows," the report said. Amazon spends $1.6 million a year to protect its boss from external threats, the report added.

Apple spent about $310,000 on personal security services for CEO Tim Cook last year while Oracle spent over $1.6 million to protect CEO Larry Ellison. Facebook, however, spent $20 million on its CEO Mark Zuckerberg`s personal security last year -- four times more than what he received for security in 2016, owing to the growing privacy scandals the social networking giant is facing globally. Gavin de Becker, a veteran security consultant at Amazon, wrote a first-person account in The Daily Beast last month, claiming that Saudi Arabia hacked Bezos` smartphone and allegedly shared personal information about his extramarital affair with a media outlet.

The monarchy was "intent on harming Jeff Bezos" over The Washington Post (owned by Bezos) coverage of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, wrote de Becker. "Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos` phone, and gained private information," de Becker said.

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Written By: IANS
Updated: Wed, May 01, 2019
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