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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That’s 0.0001x their 2022 profit or 0.01%. If I did my math correctly, it’s about 58 minutes of profit.

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Fuck these corporate oligarchs.

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That fine should have to be 25 billion, not million. Then they’d actually learn a lesson.

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I’m sure if it was a $2.5bn fine, they’d be much more careful about customer privacy going forwards…

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Yep, but it never will be a $2.5 billion fine.

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Meta had been fined $1.3 billion this year by the European Union’s GDPR. Before that Amazon was fined $781 million.

So 2.5 billion could happen, but not in the US obviously.

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