Regulators are playing hardball on kids’ privacy, with two recent settlements with tech giants giving in-house counsel in the industry plenty of reasons to review their own data collection and storage policies.

Last month, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice that it illegally retained voice recordings from children who used their Alexa devices, and then deceived parents about it.

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