Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever

'If you (like so many of us) hate listening to recordings of your own
voice, you may be in for an unpleasant future, as Amazon has confirmed
it hangs on to every conversation you've ever had with an
Alexa-enabled device until or unless you specifically delete them.

That confirmation comes as a response to a list of questions Sen.
Chris Coons (D-Delaware) sent to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in May
expressing "concerns" about how Amazon uses and retains customers'
Alexa voice assistant data.

Amazon's response to Coons, as first reported by CNET, confirms that
the company keeps your data as long as it wants unless you
deliberately specify otherwise.

"We retain customers' voice recordings and transcripts until the
customer chooses to delete them," Amazon said—but even then there are
exceptions.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/amazon-confirms-it-keeps-your-alexa-recordings-basically-forever/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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