Amazon will pay more than $30 million in fines to settle alleged privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and doorbell camera Ring, according to federal filings.
In one lawsuit, the Federal Trade Commission claims the tech company violated privacy laws by keeping recordings of children’s conversations with its voice assistant Alexa, and in another that its employees have monitored customers’ Ring camera recordings without their consent.
The FTC alleges Amazon held onto children’s voice and geolocation data indefinitely, illegally used it to improve its algorithm and kept transcripts of their interactions with Alexa despite parents’ requests to delete them.
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