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Amazon boss Andy Jassy has criticized competition regulators in Brussels and Washington for torpedoing his company’s purchase of robot vacuum cleaner pioneer iRobot. Jassy pointed out on Thursday that iRobot was struggling to keep up with Chinese rivals after the deal was cancelled. He also raised concerns about data security, because modern vacuum-cleaner robots create a 3D scan of the home. “Really, what Western regulators were saying is that they trust these two large Chinese companies with maps of the inside of US consumers’ homes more than they do Amazon,” Jassy complained in an interview…

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