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.
$25 million? Jeff Bezos had so much money he could probably just tip that amount to whatever servant he has who polishes his head with an orbital buffer.
Heck depending on how many voice recordings there are, they might be able to make 25 million selling that off for AI training some day…
I wonder what they thought the device was going to do
Like $25 million is laundry change for them. They will probably pay it in quarters.
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 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.
$25 million dollars. That’s just pocket change for Amazon.
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That’s 0.0001x their 2022 profit or 0.01%. If I did my math correctly, it’s about 58 minutes of profit.
That fine for them is like a trip to McDonald’s for me in terms of worth.
I think. Math might be off. But like 25 bucks assuming Amazon is worth $1T
That’s like fining me $0.10
You’re fined for 0.10$
Meet me a my office!
Can I use the fine as a tax deduction?
You’d have to be a fucking idiot to install one of these devices and not expect this to happen, lol.
Fuck these corporate oligarchs.
and to pay the US government $25 million within the next week
This is dumb. Not only is that pocket change to Amazon, none, absolutely zero dollars of that is going to the parents and kids affected. They’re the ones that asked for it to be deleted. They’re the ones that got recorded. NOT the US government.
The article does say there are private lawsuits pending. I would guess that will include more payouts from amazon and money to the families.
I remember when people were trying to convince me that Alexa wasn’t recording every thing you said. Now here we are.
That fine should have to be 25 billion, not million. Then they’d actually learn a lesson.
Another reason not to have that shit in your house.
