Amazon has announced that Echo Dot Kids – its smart speaker specifically for children – will be available in the UK next month. Echo Dot Kids, which was first introduced in the US in September last year, is powered by the firm's smart speaker, Alexa, and comes in two fun child-friendly designs – a tiger and a panda. But its release comes amid privacy and security concerns that may make parents think twice before they let the devices in their child's bedroom. Amazon's smart speakers are known to store snippets of conversations users have with Alexa – and the firm has also previously admitted that some of this audio has been listened to and transcribed by staff. To get your children into interacting with AI from an early age, Amazon is providing two options for children's versions of Echo Amazon later gave users the ability to opt-out of sharing their audio recordings with the firm and the option to delete old recordings.