Amazon must face US class action over Alexa users’ privacy

A federal judge in Seattle on Monday said tens of millions of users of Amazon.com’s cloud-based voice service Alexa can band together in a class action accusing the tech giant of deceptively recording and collecting their private conservations.

The Alexa users met the legal threshold to sue in a nationwide class action for monetary damages and a court order to stop the alleged privacy violations, U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik said in his ruling.