From CNET: Amazon will pay two separate penalties for privacy violations: $25 million for allegedly not deleting children's data and $5.8 million for failing to restrict access to Ring security videos, the Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday.
Amazon's settlement with the FTC followed a complaint alleging Amazon prevented parents from deleting their children's voice and geolocation data acquired through the Alexa voice assistant and stored and used the data for several years to improve the Alexa algorithm to better understand children's speech patterns and accents.
This put the data "at risk of harm from unnecessary access," according to the FTC.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule "does not allow companies to keep children's data forever for any reason, and certainly not to train their algorithms," Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement.
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