Amazon to Pay Over $30M , Due to Ring and Alexa Privacy Violations.<br />The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made the announcement on May 31, CNET reports. .<br />Amazon must pay two individual <br />privacy violation penalties. .<br />$25 million will be shelled out <br />"for allegedly not deleting children's data," .<br />and $5.8 million will be paid for not restricting access to Ring security videos, CNET reports. .<br />The settlement follows a complaint alleging that parents weren't able to delete their kids' voices and location data acquired by Alexa.<br />Amazon then allegedly used that data for <br />years to enhance Alexa's algorithm.<br />Amazon then allegedly used that data for <br />years to enhance Alexa's algorithm.<br />[The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule] does not allow companies to keep children's data forever for any reason, and certainly not to train their algorithms, Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau <br />of Consumer Protection, via statement.<br />As for the penalty against Ring, employees and contractors were allegedly able to <br />access customer videos with relative ease. .<br />One employee over several months <br />viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras <br />that surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms. , FTC, via statement.<br />The employee wasn't <br />stopped until another employee discovered the misconduct, FTC, via statement
