Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine.
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Should be $25 billion instead. Maybe then the rich asshole owners/investors would pay attention to the fucking rules.
Amazon made about $513 billion in 2022. So this fine amounts to less than a half hour of revenue.
Very nice, now fine them an amount that actually hurts their shareholders.