Case Study
Apple Cuts Out Contact With Contacts: Smart Move for Privacy
Apple has been lauded for its privacy friendly update to the iOS App store rules to...+ Read more
Amazon had to pay $25 million dollars for improperly collecting children’s voice recordings and geolocation information through its Alexa devices, misleading parents about privacy protections, and failing to honor deletion requests. The DOJ and FTC took action against Amazon for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. In addition to the monetary settlement, Amazon must also delete inactive child accounts, stop using certain sensitive information to train its algorithms, stop misrepresenting its privacy policies, and notify its users about the FTC-DOJ action.