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.

  • Hal-5700X
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    62 years ago

    Another reason not to have that shit in your house.

  • Pope-King Joe
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    202 years ago

    25 million? They made $514 billion in net sales last year. 25mil is a fucking rounding error for them.

  • @dunestorm@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

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

      • @BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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        82 years 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.

  • @Gyella@lemmy.world
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    -22 years ago

    If you were actually dumb enough to put one of these listening devices in your home owned by the most powerful & greedy company on the planet you deserve to have your privacy invaded. People are fucking stupid.

    • @original2@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      i mean my brother bought them and refuses to remove them. There is no convincing him to remove them. They are in basically every room and nobody defends me when I want them gone because of convenience.

      I cannot even ask for the data to be erased because it is not on my account.

      • @eleitl@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        Are both of you living with your parents? I would make a point to not talk when such devices are present. Or just voice order expensive shit on Amazon for his account.

  • @Mdotaut801@lemmy.world
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    62 years ago

    Cost of doing business that was already put in this years’ projections. Bezos can pay for this small fine out of his change jar and we’ll continue on, business as usual.

  • Nine
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    182 years ago

    Fines mean legal for a price and it’s only effective if it costs more to pay it than the profit made from it

    • Nora
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      172 years ago

      did jeff bezos downvote your comment?