PrivacyHigh
Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings
- Occurred
- May 10, 2018
- Published
- May 31, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Alexa children users
- Minors
- Alexa users
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Tags
- Amazon
- Alexa
- Data privacy
- Data retention
- Children
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: FTC and DOJ charged Amazon for violating COPPA by collecting children's voice data without consent.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8