The Echo Dot for kids can help your child learn, play and grow. It's also collecting massive amounts of data about them.
Four U.S. senators sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday asking the agency to investigate possible violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act involving Amazon’s new child-targeted version of its popular Echo device.
Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal, who sit on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, as well as Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Durbin, wrote that Amazon’s data collection “raises serious concerns about the extent to which the Echo Dot Kids Edition complies with” the law.
In the following video from CFCC and IPR, a child feeds a Dot various sensitive information — name, address, phone number, social security number, food allergies — and then attempted to delete this data using the Amazon Alexa smartphone app. However, according to the video, deleting or modifying these records on the Dot did not appear to actually erase the information.
The current efforts to rein in Amazon’s data collection follow a May 2018 letter sent to CEO Jeff Bezos that posed a litany of questions about his company’s plans to release digital assistants for children and consideration of child privacy laws. That letter, written by Markey and Congressman Joe Barton, anticipated a host of concerns that reemerged in Thursday’s letter to the FTC.
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