Fact · Voice privacy and security
25million US dollars
Amazon agreed to a permanent injunction and a $25 million civil penalty, in a settlement with the FTC and DOJ over alleged COPPA and FTC Act violations relating to Alexa.
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In the source's own words
“have agreed to a permanent injunction and a $25 million civil penalty as part of a settlement to resolve alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)”
Amazon Agrees to Injunctive Relief and $25 Million Civil Penalty for Alleged Violations of Children's Privacy Law Relating to Alexa, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, 2023, First paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, alleges that Amazon retained children's voice recordings indefinitely by default, in violation of COPPA's retention limit, and deceived users about deleting voice recordings. The release is dated July 19, 2023.
- What it does not show
- The $25 million is a civil penalty in a settlement, and the release describes allegations. Some news coverage dates the settlement to May 31, 2023, while this release is dated July 19, 2023. The same day's $5.8 million Ring matter concerns camera data, not voice, and is not a row.
In the data
A row of Voice Recording Privacy Settlements and Fines, as Amazon Alexa children's recordings, 2023: 25 million US dollars.
- Company
- Amazon
- Service
- Alexa
- Kind
- Regulator fine or order
- Authority or court
- FTC and DOJ, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
- What it was about
- Children's voice data
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 2023