Amazon confirms it retains your Alexa voice recordings indefinitely

Tech	2019-7-3 09:34

Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant may be useful, but the privacy concerns aren’t going away anytime soon. Now, in a fresh turn of events, the retail giant has confirmed that it keeps transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, and only removes them if they’re manually deleted by users.

The confirmation came to light after Delaware Democratic senator Chris Coons sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos back in May, requesting information about the company’s privacy and data security practices for Alexa devices. Privacy in the Internet of Things space has already been a hot topic. Earlier this April, Bloomberg published a piece…

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