Incident 556: Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings
Description: Amazon's retention of children' voice recordings indefinitely as the default setting reportedly to train Alexa's voice recognition for Alexa-enabled devices was charged by the FTC and DOJ to violate COPPA Rule.
Editor Notes: Edited to clarify that a charging decision has been reached and not a verdict or ruling.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Amazon developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Alexa children users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
556
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2018-05-10
Editors
Khoa Lam, Sean McGregor
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
washingtontimes.com · 2023
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WASHINGTON — Amazon will pay more than $30 million to settle alleged privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring.
The Federal Trade Commission voted to file charges in two separate cases Wednesday tha…
11alive.com · 2023
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WASHINGTON — Amazon will pay more than $30 million to settle alleged privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring.
The Federal Trade Commission voted to file charges in two separate cases Wednesday tha…
ftc.gov · 2023
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.