Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Experts Say First Class Action Claim Under State's Privacy Law Won't Be the LastA proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Amazon is unlawfully collecting and tracking mobile users' data - including sensitive geolocation - in violation of Washington's My Health My Data Act. It's the first such lawsuit filed since the data privacy law went into effect last year.

Experts Say First Class Action Claim Under State's Privacy Law Won't Be the LastA proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Amazon is unlawfully collecting and tracking mobile users' data - including sensitive geolocation - in violation of Washington State's My Health My Data Act. It's the first such lawsuit filed since the data privacy law went into effect last year.

Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that's far more vast than most people realize, and it desperately needs regulation. …

The US Federal Trade Commission will send $5.6m worth of refunds to the spied-on customers of the Amazon-owned home camera company

The Federal Trade Commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to Ring users whose private video feeds were accessed without consent by Amazon employees and contractors, or had their accounts and devices hacked because of insufficient security protections. [...]

E-Commerce Giant Accuses Luxembourg Regulators of Attacking the CompanyAmazon in a Luxembourg court Tuesday contested a once-record privacy fine levied against the e-commerce giant for its advertising practices by the diminutive country's data protection authority. The fine of 746 million euros stems from a 2018 complaint by French privacy group La Quadrature du Net.

The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million fine to settle alleged children's privacy laws violations related to the company's Alexa voice assistant service. [...]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Amazon a cumulative $30.8 million over a series of privacy lapses regarding its Alexa assistant and Ring security cameras

The global e-commerce company will pay millions of dollars in two separate lawsuits because of privacy and security violations, the FTC says.

Regulator's proposed order to cover civil penalty and consumer refunds

Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick! America's Federal Trade Commission has made Amazon a case study for every cautionary tale about how sloppily designed internet-of-things devices and associated services represent a risk to privacy – and made the cost of those actions, as alleged, a mere $30.8 million.…

Amazon will pay $30 million in fines to settle allegations of privacy violations related to the operation of its Ring video doorbell and Alexa virtual assistant services. [...]

Web giant milks advertisers with data harvested from digital assistant Amazon and third-party services have been using smart speaker interaction data for ad targeting, in violation of privacy commitments, according to researchers at four US universities.…