The new Astro smart home robot keeps some personal information on the device instead of Amazon’s cloud. That could help customers feel comfortable using it, but advocates say it doesn’t eliminate all ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years ...

Maybe don't put an autonomous, internet-connected, mobile video camera inside your home. As envisioned by Amazon, Astros will move "autonomously" around customers' homes to act as security cameras, ...

The FTC reached two landmark settlements with Amazon, one for violating kids' privacy and another for letting creeps watch home security camera videos. Reading time 4 minutes Amazon settled two ...

Amazon will pay more than $30 million to settle two separate charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations of violating user privacy. Amazon’s Ring will pay $5.8 million to settle ...

Amazon will have to pay more than $30 million in consumer refunds and fines for violating the privacy of customers who own Alexa and Ring devices under settlement agreements filed Wednesday. In one ...

The Amazon Echo line makes for a neat hub for simple home automations, but not every user realizes just how much data it keeps track of.

For more than 20 years online ad companies have relied on privacy policies to tell people that their online activity may be used for ad targeting purposes. And for nearly that long, observers have ...