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• ECOVACS , the service robotics company and producer of the top performing robotic vacuum and mop - DEEBOT - just announced their hottest product yet in Canada: the DEEBOT T20 OMNI.
• The first 500 customers on the reservation list who purchase DEEBOT T20 OMNI on June 13th will get a $150CDN T20 OMNI accessories gift voucher for one-time use at ECOVACS.com (valid for 1 year).
• (Photo: Business Wire)
  "We are thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our robotic lineup, the DEEBOT T20 OMNI," says Peter Cao, General Manager of ECOVACS Americas.
• DEEBOT T20 OMNI will be available for purchase June 13th on ECOVACS.com, Amazon.ca, and Best Buy Canada for $1,799CDN.

• PHILADELPHIA, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- i76 Solutions , a full-service marketing and technology agency based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, announced today the elevation of Alexa Minnick to Vice President, Marketing, effective immediately.
• Previously serving as the agency's Director, Digital Marketing & Strategy, Alexa will now cultivate, strengthen and grow the agency's relationships and strategies across the complex, often-fragmented, multi-channel marketing landscape.
• Alexa will continue to report directly to and work closely with Drew Salamone, the agency's Founder and President.
• She holds several digital marketing certifications from Google and oversees the agency's marketing and project teams.

• “Amazon’s history of misleading parents, keeping children’s recordings indefinitely, and flouting parents’ deletion requests violated COPPA and sacrificed privacy for profits,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
• According to the complaint, Amazon prominently and repeatedly assured its users, including parents, that they could delete voice recordings collected from its Alexa voice assistant and geolocation information collected by the Alexa app.
• Amazon also offers Alexa-enabled devices and services targeted to children and collects personal data, including voice recordings, from children.
• Even when Amazon discovered its failures to delete geolocation data, the FTC said that Amazon repeatedly failed to fix the problems.

Proposed Order

In addition to the data deletion requirement in the proposed order, Amazon will be required to pay a $25 million civil penalty. Other provisions of the proposed order:
• The Commission vote closed on a date prior to Commissioner Christine S. Wilson’s departure from the agency.
• Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya also issued a separate statement, joined by FTC Chair Lina M. Khan and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.  The Department of Justice filed the complaint and the stipulated order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
• The lead staff attorneys on this matter are Elisa Jillson, Andy Hasty, and Julia Horwitz from the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

• Nok Nok 2022 annual recurring revenue increased by more than 40% YoY, driven by expansion in customer deployments, and the addition of new vertical markets fueled by global regulations that require phishing-resistant authentication.
• As an inventor of FIDO specifications, Nok Nok and its S3 product suite have been in sync with advances in FIDO authentication.
• With the introduction of FIDO passkeys in 2022, Nok Nok announced the:
  same safety and convenience of using biometrics to access your device as for logging into web services.
• DOCOMO's adoption of Nok Nok's FIDO solution enhanced the authentication user experience, toward DOCOMO's goal of a "Passwordless World."