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. - eviltoast

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.

  • Aldrond@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It shouldn’t be a fine at all. It should be jailtime for executives involved, and asset seizure.

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      1 year ago

      That is the solution.

      And before the usual story “but companies are not people and you cannot punish people for things a company did”: in the end, in a company there is always someone that make a decision. It is too easy to commit a crime and then say “but the company did it”.

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        1 year ago

        It’s how they always hide, and they won’t ever stop until we hold them accountable. By law or otherwise.