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US authorities charge Amazon with violating children’s privacy law by undermining parents’ deletion requests (web.archive.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's to hoping they get fined an amount that impacts their profits more than the amount they made doing this. I'm not holding my breath though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

$25 million. They can't pay more as they need all the money for Jeff's philantropy I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Jesus that's couch cushion change for them