Privacy Experts, Senators Demand Investigation of Amazon’s Child Data Collection Practices
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09/amazon-echo-dot-childrens-privacy
Last year, a coalition of privacy advocates and child psychologists warned against putting an Amazon Alexa speaker anywhere near your child on the fairly reasonable grounds that developing minds shouldn’t befriend always-on surveillance devices, no matter how cute the packaging. Now, a group of privacy researchers, attorneys, and U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s alleged violations of COPPA, a law protecting the littlest users of all. COPPA, (...)