Amazon has agreed to pay $25 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges over privacy violations linked to its digital assistant, Alexa.Recommended Videos First, let’s look at the Alexa case. It involves alleged violations of children’s privacy rights, with the tech giant accused of keeping recordings of voice interactions with Alexa for years after they were made, along with location history, in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act .
“Children’s speech patterns and accents differ from those of adults, so the unlawfully retained voice recordings provided Amazon with a valuable database for training the Alexa algorithm to understand children, benefitting its bottom line at the expense of children’s privacy,” the FTC said. A separate suit filed by the FTC accuses Amazon’s Ring doorbell unit of violating part of the FTC Act banning unfair or deceptive business practices. Amazon has chosen to settle by agreeing to pay the agency $5.8 million.
Offering an example, it said that one employee “over several months viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras that surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms.” The employee was only stopped when another employee discovered the misconduct.
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