Amazon ordered to pay more than $30M for privacy violations related to Alexa, Ring devices

[Kent Sharkey]

CBC[^]:

Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million US civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by its popular Alexa voice assistant.

For those keeping track, that's about 26 minutes of revenue

Or about 2 days (give or take) of profit.

[jeron1]

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In addition to the fine in the Alexa case, the proposed order prohibits Amazon from using deleted geolocation and voice information to create or improve any data product.

Odd (but typical in this case) use of the word 'deleted' here. :sigh:

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