Amazon Kids+ / Fire Kids Tablet
Amazon.com, Inc. · Kids' Device / Parental Monitor
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Index
The Fire Kids tablet, Amazon Kids+ content service and paired Alexa collect children's voice recordings, app and content usage, and geolocation into a child profile. The FTC and DOJ found Amazon kept kids' Alexa voice recordings and precise geolocation indefinitely, used them to train its algorithms, and undermined parents' deletion requests.
Why this rating
Collects children's voice and geolocation (sensitive-collection -15), retained that data indefinitely (-8), historically undermined deletion rights (-5), vague/broad use for its own purposes (-7), and unilateral changes (-5). Evidence: a single landmark 2023 FTC/DOJ COPPA regulatory action (-20, counted once) documenting the 'kept forever' retention and deletion failures; both cited rows (the FTC press release and the case docket) document that same action.
What it is
- Microphone
- Camera
- Requires a cloud account
- Manufacturer
- Amazon.com, Inc.
- Category
- Kids' Device / Parental Monitor
- Model years
- 2015-present
- Market status
- Current
- Companion app
- Amazon Kids / Parent Dashboard
The evidence 2
Independent research, regulatory action, lawsuits, breaches and journalism about this device — the "what actually happens" axis. Each links to its source.
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FTC and DOJ charged Amazon with violating COPPA by retaining children's Alexa voice recordings indefinitely even after parents asked for deletion, resulting in a $25 million penalty.
Why it matters here: Federal enforcement over children's data collected through Amazon's kids/Alexa ecosystem that runs on these devices.
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Official FTC case record for United States v. Amazon.com covering the Alexa children's-privacy violations.
Why it matters here: Primary case documentation of the children's-data violations tied to Amazon's kids devices.
Descriptive, cited, not legal advice; ratings are versioned and corrections create a new version. Data from the IoT Info Grabber DB research project, CC BY-SA 4.0.