May 10, 2018Confirmed
Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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Amazon's retention of children' voice recordings indefinitely as the default setting reportedly to train Alexa's voice recognition for Alexa-enabled devices was charged by the FTC and DOJ to violate COPPA Rule.
What this means for youIf your household has an Alexa device, check whether voice recording storage and retention are on, and delete children's recordings in the Alexa privacy settings. At work and in government, this shows that default settings for voice data collected from children can bring federal penalties.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/556
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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