Amazon quietly changed its service provisions to enable customers to file lawsuits after receiving the flood of arbitration demands, according to the Wall Street Journal. Corporate dispute resolution policy for previous customers directing them to place their complaints in a secret court. Proceedings of the arbitration called this are usually used by companies to prevent potentially damaging decisions in court. Amazon faces three proposed class actions, which can produce large payments to several plaintiffs, including the one submitted May accused him of recording echo users without permission.

The company is rumored to change its policy after a lawyer who leaned to flood it with more than 75,000 individual arbitration demands on behalf of echo users. Claims were submitted at the beginning of 2020 after the news report that the ALEXA Amazon device saved user recordings. The lawyer told the WSJ that the move straddled online retailers with bills for tens of millions of dollars in archiving fees.

In May, Amazon Attorneys reportedly told the Plaintiff’s attorney changes in the provisions of its services. The company’s original dispute clause stated: “Arbitration will be carried out by the American Arbitrage Association (AAA) below its rules, including AAA complementary procedures for consumer-related disputes.

“Amazon and each of you agree that every process of settlement of disputes will only be carried out individually and not in the class, consolidation or representative action.” Amendments have replaced what the description of 350-word from the arbitration requirements with two sentences that said disputes can be carried in the state or federal field in King County, Washington.

Amazon told WSJ some claims had been drawn or ended with the help of the company. It adds that the echo device only records when used and that customers can remove recordings or choose not to save them.

This update follows the growing pressure on large technology companies to end their forced arbitration use. Earlier this year, an Amazon seller complained to his unfair policy parliamentary members using the secret court to resolve disputes. Jacob Weiss told the Judicial House subcommittee about antitrust that he spent thousands of arbitration costs and slightly restoring what was missing. Last year, the house Democrats on the Antitrust Committee recommended eliminating clauses and limits of forced arbitration on class law demands in the digital market report.

For its part, Google ends the compulsory arbitration policy for employees after internal protest for its response to sexual abuse claims. About 20,000 global workers technology companies participated in walkouts amid #Metoo movement in 2018.