The Federal Trade Commission is under increasing pressure to prohibit Amazon’s planned $1.65 billion acquisition of iRobot, the company behind Roomba self-driving vacuums.
A group of Democratic congressmen said in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan on Thursday that the planned merger would unjustly boost Amazon’s dominance in the smart home industry by purchasing one of the company’s major rivals. They also attacked Amazon’s data privacy and security procedures in the aftermath of previous purchases of firms like Ring, which had data-sharing collaborations with over 600 law enforcement agencies around the nation.
