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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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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Should have been 25% of profits. Percentage based systems work.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] EatMyDick@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lolololol 25% of profits for keeping on to recordings for too long? You people are insane. You just hate Amazon and want to stick it to them.

The irony is none of these lemmy instances are run by companies with registrations and can do whatever the fuck they want when your data yet everyone is a okay cause pinky promise I hate Reddit too! 🤦‍♂️

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

25% of profits for wilfully breaching privacy law... that's actually quite low given what creative accounting can do for profits.

GDPR maximum fine is 4% of global turnover. Luckily for amazon it's capped otherwise they'd be on the hook for billions.

[–] EatMyDick@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Christ, that type of penalty has no bearing of actual damages. They kept the data longer than another party thought was needed. The actual damage was minimal. They have a robust set of controls and are one of the better tech companies to work with in regards to child protection. A whole hell of a lot more than these lemmy instances doing literally nothing to protect childrens data.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can somewhat trust some people with your data if there is no profit motive. You can't trust a corporation or a government. Ever.

[–] EatMyDick@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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