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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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If that actually were the punishment, you’d actually see companies behaving a lot less evil very quickly. A tiny fine that isn’t even a blip in the companies pocket won’t do anything.

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