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Amazon's $25M Alexa settlement over children's recordings

$25M

US Federal Trade Commission

US · 2023

Status: Paid

What happened

The FTC settled claims that Amazon kept children's Alexa voice recordings indefinitely, against COPPA and parents' deletion requests.

How it affected users

Children's voice recordings were retained unlawfully even after parents asked for their deletion.

Status timeline

  1. May 31, 2023

    Penalty announced.

Sources

Last verified 2026-07-02. Spotted an error? Report a correction.

Cite this entry

Deepak Gupta, "Amazon's $25M Alexa settlement over children's recordings," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2023-05-31. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/amazon-us-alexa-coppa-2023/

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