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.

  • JingJang@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t a “fine” to Amazon. 25 million dollars is just the cost of business.

    Make this 250 or 500 million and then… Maybe… it’s a fine.

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      1 year ago

      Fuck it. Hit them with a couple of billion and THEN companies might stop being shitheads to basic human rights.

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        1 year ago

        Totally agree. Facebook should have been absolutely crippled financially after influencing an election, but they get off scot free.

        My idea is this:

        Instead of a maximum fine being applied, you take a violation, lets say influencing an election, and you calculate how much of the corporations revenue came from that source. (i.e. Facebook messenger revenue would not count for election manipulation). Then, take a huge portion of that revenue (60%, 70%? [Depending on the violation]) and take that from their revenue. Who gives a shit if Facebook literally has to close down one of their services from lack of finances, thats what they get.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, something at or above 100% would be good. Even at 100% they’re still losing the cost of doing business and getting zero revenue from it which is a poor business decision.

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      Lolololol 25% of profits for keeping on to recordings for too long? You people are insane. You just hate Amazon and want to stick it to them.

      The irony is none of these lemmy instances are run by companies with registrations and can do whatever the fuck they want when your data yet everyone is a okay cause pinky promise I hate Reddit too! 🤦‍♂️

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        1 year ago

        You can somewhat trust some people with your data if there is no profit motive. You can’t trust a corporation or a government. Ever.

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        1 year ago

        25% of profits for wilfully breaching privacy law… that’s actually quite low given what creative accounting can do for profits.

        GDPR maximum fine is 4% of global turnover. Luckily for amazon it’s capped otherwise they’d be on the hook for billions.

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          1 year ago

          Christ, that type of penalty has no bearing of actual damages. They kept the data longer than another party thought was needed. The actual damage was minimal. They have a robust set of controls and are one of the better tech companies to work with in regards to child protection. A whole hell of a lot more than these lemmy instances doing literally nothing to protect childrens data.

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      1 year ago

      25% of revenue, not profits. If it was profits then the fine would likely be $0 due to creative accounting.