Amazon saved children’s voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it’s paying a $25 million fine.::“For too long, Amazon has treated children’s sensitive data as its own property,” Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.
Yeah it’s definitely not satisfying, heads will never roll, but it is progress! Better than a “Woops, sorry for dumping billions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, here’s some pocket change, we’ll do it again next week” at least.
Now the question is whether that progress is fast enough to keep up with a changing tech landscape, at the moment I don’t think so. We’re still arguing about data privacy, governments don’t have the balls to even start tackling misinformation at the source, and generative AI is a whole other beast that regulators have barely started talking about.