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podcasts. Amazon has eyes and ears inside millions of homes and the FTC is looking into that.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

Last week, Amazon agreed to pay more than $30 million to settle two complaints brought

by the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the company violated user privacy

with its ring video system and Alexa audio assistant. The FTC said Amazon gave employees

too much access to users' private videos and left ring systems open to hacking.

The agency also said Amazon Alexa devices violated child privacy law by retaining

kids voice recordings for years and that the company used consumer audio and video recordings

to train algorithms without consent. Amazon in agreeing to the proposed settlement denied

it broke any laws and said the issues had long since been addressed. But it's not just

financial penalties the company faces according to McKenna Kelly, the politics reporter at the verge.

Both of these orders I think are similar in the same vein where they

instruct Amazon to not use any of this improperly accessed data whether it's the voice

information or the customer videos to create new products, new services or better the services

that they already have. And then I think there's also in both of them it bars them from misrepresenting

their certain privacy policies and informing customers more blatantly about the ways that they

collect and use the data from the services and the products that these customers use.

And the FTC complaints also included allegations that the ring systems were vulnerable to third-party

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