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.
Amazon has agreed to change how it handles children's data, including what it collects through its popular Alexa voice assistant, by the end of the year — and to pay the US government $25 million within the next week — under a settlement approved this week by a federal judge in the state of Washington.
"While we disagree with the FTC's claims and deny violating the law, this settlement puts the matter behind us," Amazon said in a statement."As part of the settlement, we agreed to make a small modification to our already strong practices, and will remove child profiles that have been inactive for more than 18 months unless a parent or guardian chooses to keep them."
According to the federal complaint, filed in May, Amazon stored the personal information of children — including recordings and transcripts of those recordings — even when their accounts have"been inactive for years," which it described as a violation of COPPA.
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