"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.

  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    25% of profits for wilfully breaching privacy law… that’s actually quite low given what creative accounting can do for profits.

    GDPR maximum fine is 4% of global turnover. Luckily for amazon it’s capped otherwise they’d be on the hook for billions.