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.
It shouldn’t be a fine at all. It should be jailtime for executives involved, and asset seizure.
That is the solution.
And before the usual story “but companies are not people and you cannot punish people for things a company did”: in the end, in a company there is always someone that make a decision. It is too easy to commit a crime and then say “but the company did it”.
It’s how they always hide, and they won’t ever stop until we hold them accountable. By law or otherwise.