GeekWire – “The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business. Amazon is suing Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post from a series of state Department of Labor and Industries investigations of an Amazon Project Kuiper satellite facility in the Seattle area. The lawsuit, filed this week in King County Superior Court in Seattle, says the newspaper on Nov. 26 requested “copies of inspection records, investigation notes, interview notes, complaints,” and other documents related to four investigations at the Redmond, Wash., facility between August and October 2024. It’s not an unusual move by the company, and in some ways it’s a legal technicality. Amazon says it’s not seeking to block the records release entirely, but rather seeking to protect from public disclosure certain records that contain proprietary information and trade secrets about the company’s satellite internet operations. The lawsuit cites a prior situation in which Amazon and the Department of Labor and Industries similarly worked through the court to respond to a Seattle Times public records request without disclosing proprietary information. The twist in this latest complaint is the common thread between the entity requesting the records and the one seeking to limit their release. Bezos, the Amazon founder, has owned The Washington Post since 2013. The Washington Post isn’t named as a defendant in the lawsuit. But the public records request further underscores the independence of the publication’s reporters in covering the business dealings of its owner…”