"For too long, Amazon has treated children's sensitive data as its own property," Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.

Amazon saved children’s voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it’s paying a $25 million fine.::“For too long, Amazon has treated children’s sensitive data as its own property,” Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.

  • dunestorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure if it was a $2.5bn fine, they’d be much more careful about customer privacy going forwards…

      • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Meta had been fined $1.3 billion this year by the European Union’s GDPR. Before that Amazon was fined $781 million.

        So 2.5 billion could happen, but not in the US obviously.