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

Yep, but it never will be a $2.5 billion fine.

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.