The last day has not been kind to the reputation of Amazon, which has found itself under fire from American regulators, British tax-fairness campaigners—and its own staff.
The biggest news came courtesy of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, which yesterday charged Amazon over serious violations of kids’ privacy with its Alexa assistant—Amazon told parents and other users that they could delete Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data, but, if they did, Amazon still held onto some of the data for years so it could better train Alexa.
