Amazon to pay over $30 million in FTC settlements over Ring, Alexa privacy violations

Amazon's Ring to pay FTC $5.8 million over privacy violations

will pay the Federal Trade Commission more than $30 million as part of settlement agreements related to its Alexa and Ring divisions, according to filings on Wednesday.

A separate suit alleges Amazon violated the FTC Act and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by illegally retaining thousands of children's information through their profiles with the Alexa voice assistant. Amazon paid $25 million to settle that suit. Ring employees and those who worked for a third-party contractor in Ukraine could access and download every customer's videos, with no technical or procedural restrictions on the practice before July 2017, the FTC alleged.

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