By Mike Swift ( June 12, 2019, 04:31 GMT | Insight) -- Amazon has been targeted in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of parents, alleging in a suit filed in Washington state that the e-commerce giant’s Alexa-enabled devices have violated the laws of eight states by recording the voices of children. The suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, seeks statutory damages for violating the laws of Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington. Those states all prohibit the recording of oral communications unless all parties to those communications consent to the recording.Amazon has been targeted in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of parents, alleging in a suit filed in Washington state that the e-commerce giant’s Alexa-enabled devices have violated the laws of eight states by recording the voices of children....
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