Amazon.com was slapped with a privacy class action Thursday in Washington Western District Court over the company’s handling of smart speaker recordings. The lawsuit, which alleges that Amazon’s Alexa technology saves permanent recordings of users’ voices without consent, is backed by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd; Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore; and Thornton Law Firm.

“While Alexa is held out to resemble an ideal servant in a Victorian manor, hovering in the background, waiting patiently to do its master’s bidding, that is merely a façade,” the complaint says. “In reality, Alexa is more akin to an Orwellian Big Brother informant, surreptitiously collecting personal, private, and confidential conversations to bring back to its true master, Amazon—which then uses the unauthorized and unlawfully obtained information at its discretion.”

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]