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The title is misleading; as the article reveals, you can't delete the recordings, all you can do is ask Google to not tie them to your identity. (and hope that
by joosters 11y ago
The title is misleading; as the article reveals, you can't delete the recordings, all you can do is ask Google to not tie them to your identity. (and hope that they actually do that...)
- voyou 11y agoYou can delete them (or at least, request that Google delete them); either by selecting the checkbox next to each recording, or by choosing "Delete options" from the vertical-line-of-three-dots icon in the top right. What it looks like you can't do is ask Google not to keep anonymized recordings of voice searches etc that you make in the future.
- feld 11y agoseems more reasonable then to leave them as-is and regularly delete them :)
- josso 11y agoEven then, you don't really delete the recordings, you just delete the link between your account and the recording. As the article points out, the only way to stop Google from having any voice data on you (anonymized or not) is to stop using their voice features.
- feld 11y agoHmm good point. I overlooked that fact.
- joosters 11y agoSorry, didn't realise that. I did visit the page but the checkboxes weren't there as I had no recordings.
- btian 11y agoSo you have no recordings, and you claim Google doesn't allow you to delete recordings... I guess you're technically right, Google doesn't let you delete things that don't exist.
- bcoates 11y agoRemember that as the AOL search history leaks showed us, the anonymization is a fig leaf and it's not terribly challenging to re-associate a complete search query history with a person -- even without identifying the voice.
- tonfa 11y agoDidn't the AOL dump still have a per user id for each record?