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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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.

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.

So like go completely mute?

Also he uses a debit card which he only transfers money to immediately before buying stuff (so that he gets as much interest as possible)

Completely mute would make a strong point.

Completely bruh. You'll do it if you care about privacy.

lmao. What about the other 'smart tech' that I disslike. When internet cut out the lights would just flash to show it was searching for wifi.