Mozilla Plans—Then Pulls—a Petition Requesting Amazon Be More Transparent About Kids’ Data

The software community says it is 'heartened [the company] listened'

Amazon’s Echo Dot for kids debuts Wednesday and, until it talked to the ecommerce giant late Monday, software community Mozilla was planning to release a petition, asking Amazon to update its product page to tell parents exactly what it will do with children’s data.

At 8:30 p.m. Monday night, however, a Mozilla rep emailed Adweek to say it wasn’t publishing a blog post planned for 8 a.m. this morning after all.

In a new statement, Ashley Boyd, Mozilla’s vice president of advocacy, said, “Recently, Mozilla aired concerns about the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition—we felt there wasn’t enough clarity on the product page about how children’s data would be used.

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