Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

May 10, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have accused Amazon of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by retaining children's voice recordings indefinitely as a default setting for training Alexa's voice recognition on Alexa-enabled devices.

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Alleged deployer: amazon
Alleged developer: amazon
Alleged harmed parties: alexa-children-users

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