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Since it seems like quite a lot of people are surprised that Amazon stores these recordings... PSA: you can go into the Alexa app and look at your Echo history

• londons_explore 8y ago
  Google is the same - see your recordings here: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa I'm not sure if it's codified in law, but big tech companies are moving towards 'if we store non-anonymized user data, it must be possible for the user to log in and see it themselves'. I think they do that so they can argue that storing and playing back the audio is a feature of the product, rather than something ancillary they happen to do which might not be in the users interest.
  • Tomte 8y ago
    I was surprised they store a real recording. I thought they submitted some pre-processed form which saves bandwith, partly anonymizes the speech and then hands it off for recognition.
  • jkantz 8y ago
    This used to be called "search history", and then "web history", and now "my activity". These controls for user data have been a best practice Google has been following for many years. https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention