Alleged Children's Privacy Violation by Amazon: A Reminder of AI Governance

May 10, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) accused Amazon for indefinitely retaining children' voice recordings as the default setting for Alexa's voice recognition training, potentially violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
amazon
Alleged developer
amazon
Alleged harmed parties
alexa-children-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/556

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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