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Amazon to Pay $30.8 Million to Settle FTC Privacy Claims FTC alleges Ring doorbell cameras illegally spied on users Alexa speakers illegally collected kids data, agency says
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/technology/amazon-25-million-childrens-privacy.html
Amazon has agreed to pay $30.8 million to settle two cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) related to privacy lapses by its smart devices. In one case, the FTC alleged that Amazon didn’t take steps to protect the privacy of users of its Ring video doorbell. The company will pay $5.8 million to settle the complaint filed in federal court in Washington, DC. In another case, filed in Washington state federal court on behalf of the FTC, the Justice Department said Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers collected information about children under the age of 13 without parental consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Amazon will pay an additional $25 million as part of a separate deal to settle FTC accusations that children’s voice recordings captured by Alexa smart speakers were kept when they should have been deleted.
FTC Says Amazon Employees Violated Customers’ Privacy By Using Ring, Alexa
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ftc-says-amazon-employees-violated-235705822.html
Biden cybersecurity leader rips faulty products
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CISA director Jen Easterly, speaking Wednesday in an interview with Ryan at an Axios event, hammered tech companies for delivering consistently faulty products that are putting national security at risk.
The CISA director urged a “secure-by-design revolution” to counter two “epoch-defining challenges of our time: artificial intelligence, and China.”
Why it matters: Easterly said she barely sleeps, given the mismatch between the threats we face and the resources she has to deploy. “It’s not just scams and fraud, it is the critical infrastructure that we rely upon every hour of every day,” she said.
Between the lines: Easterly blames “decades of misaligned incentives” — prioritizing speed-to-market over security — for delivering an “insecure technology base.”
Easterly is convinced companies are making the same mistakes again with generative AI, which she said dramatically lowers barriers for cybercriminals and makes life easier for America’s rivals.
Her message to AI developers worried about an “extinction event” is to slow down and deliver “radical transparency,” because “we can’t PSA our way out of this.”
Yes, but: The companies Easterly is criticizing are the same ones she needs, by her own admission, to have a “frictionless” partnership with if the U.S. is to fend off Chinese and Russian cyber attacks.