Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years
Regulators said the tech giant kept children's Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violating a children's privacy law.
New York Times Natasha Singer
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FTC and DOJ charge Amazon with violating children's privacy law by keeping kids' Alexa voice recordings forever and undermining parents' deletion requests: https://www.ftc.gov/... /1
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Alvaro Bedoya
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Machine learning is no excuse to break the law. Today's settlement on Amazon Alexa should set off alarms for parents across the country - and is a warning for every AI company sprinting to acquire more and more data. My full statement with @LinaKhanFTC and @RKSlaughterFTC: [image…
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@senmarkey
Ed Markey
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I've been calling on the FTC to hold Amazon's voice assistants accountable for their child privacy violations since 2018. This action by the FTC is just the first step. Congress must move swiftly to pass COPPA 2.0 and force Big Tech to stop putting profits over privacy. https://t…
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@leah_nylen
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To wrap everything together, Amazon settled two cases with the FTC today related to privacy of their devices - Ring and Alexa. Amazon will pay a total of $30.8 million.
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@linakhanftc
Lina Khan
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3. As @BedoyaFTC notes, this action is especially timely as firms race to feed LLMs & train algorithms on user data. Business claims that user data must be indefinitely retained to refine their algorithms do not override legal bans on indefinite retention. https://twitter.com/...
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@rachelmetz
Rachel Metz
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in 2018 i wrote RE how disturbing it was that Alexa recorded mundane chitchat, including my then-toddler's chatter, so i'm 👀 RE Amazon agreeing to pay $25M to settle w/ the FTC RE Alexa speakers illegally collecting kids' data. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://www.bl…
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Alex Howard
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According to a complaint filed by @TheJusticeDept on behalf of the @FTC, @Amazon “prevented parents from exercising [our] deletion rights under the COPPA Rule, kept sensitive voice & geolocation data for years, & used it for its own purposes” https://www.ftc.gov/... Off to court.…
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Lina Khan
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1. @FTC & @JusticeDept took action against @Amazon for deceiving people about how it'd store the voice & geolocation data it collected through Alexa. This included telling parents that they could delete kids' voice data, but then keeping it for years. https://www.ftc.gov/...
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Rep. Frank Pallone
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I commend FTC and DOJ for taking action to hold @amazon & @ring accountable. Incidents like these underscore the urgent need to pass my bipartisan data privacy legislation. We must stand up for consumer privacy rights, especially for our kids and teens. https://www.cnbc.com/...
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Mike Swift
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One interesting nugget about the $25 million @FTC settlement with @Amazon today is that it was bipartisan, with former Republican Commissioner Christine Wilson voting with Dems @BedoyaFTC @linakhanFTC and @RKSlaughterFTC in a 4-0 vote before her departure. https://www.ftc.gov/...…
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Lina Khan
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2. Amazon will be required to pay a $25 million penalty. The proposed order would require Amazon to delete inactive child accounts and certain voice recordings and geolocation data. Amazon would also be banned from using such data to train its algorithms. https://www.ftc.gov/...
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FTC says Ring employees illegally surveilled customers, failed to stop hackers from taking control of users' cameras. Under proposed order, Ring will be prohibited from profiting from unlawfully collected consumer videos, pay $5.8M in consumer refunds: https://www.ftc.gov/... /1
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Not home alone: FTC says Ring's lax practices led to disturbing violations of users' #privacy and security. New on the Business Blog: https://www.ftc.gov/... #datasecurity #tech
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@ashleygjovik
@ashleygjovik
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FTC just issued a complaint against Ring asking for fines, oversight, & algorithmic disgorgement At issue: Ring didn't notify or get consent from users for human review of private video recordings Including videos of a woman in her bathroom & her bedroom https://www.ftc.gov/... h…
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@ericgarland
Eric Garland
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For everyone who told me to get a Ring doorbell thingee, here's why I didn't: I like to make spies spend a little more effort on me. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Tonya Riley
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So, between Facebook Kids Messenger earlier this month and Alexa today seems like FTC is really taking a hard swing at alleged COPPA violations. https://cyberscoop.com/...
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Ann Marie Lipinski
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Stunning details in this FTC settlement with Amazon's Ring security camera company. Employee viewed 1000s of videos from women's bathrooms & bedrooms. Hackers used two-way functionality to taunt children with racist slurs, sexually proposition owners. Family threatened for ransom…