Amazon Agrees to Pay a $25 Million Settlement for Alexa’s Alleged Violations of Children’s Privacy Law

Amazon has agreed to a $25 million settlement with the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission regarding allegations the company violated federal children’s privacy laws through its Alexa personal assistant platform.

In addition to the civil penalty, Amazon.com Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Amazon.com Services LLC (collectively Amazon), have agreed to a permanent injunction as part of that settlement to resolve alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) and the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) relating to Amazon’s voice assistant, the DOJ and FTC said Wednesday.

The government had alleged that Amazon Alexa unlawfully stores children’s voice recordings and information about children’s locations – and sometimes even flouts requests from parents to have that data deleted.

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