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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. (www.businessinsider.com)

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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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[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 51 points 11 months ago

25% of revenue, not profits. If it was profits then the fine would likely be $0 due to creative accounting.

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