
Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices, behind, sit near illuminated Echo Button devices during an event by the company in Seattle, Sept. 27, 2017. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. —AP
Amazon ignored parents’ requests to delete their kids’ voice recordings from the Alexa voice assistant, federal officials say.
Now, the company has agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit.
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