Amazon.com Inc.'s Echo Dot Kid digital personal assistant is collecting children’s data without parental consent, privacy advocates are alleging in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission.
The product collects data on kids, including voice recordings, persistent identifiers, and other personal information, in violation of the Children’s Online Primacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Consumer Federation for America, the Central for Digital Democracy, and other privacy groups alleged in their May 9 complaint.
Amazon also doesn’t disclose whether third party apps are using children’s data, the groups alleged.
Lawmakers are also up in arms over the ...
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