The European Union is gearing up for a formal probe of Amazon’s planned $1.7 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The bloc’s investigators have privacy concerns about how the Roomba operates, including the vacuum robot’s ability to take pictures inside users’ homes, according to the report. EU regulators have sent Amazon a series of detailed...
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