Woman finds vast trove of voice recordings collected by Amazon’s Alexa – and you can hear yours - The Independent
Amazon customers can request all their data from the shopping giant, and can automatically delete voice data in the Alexa app.A TikTok video showing a woman’s shock at how much voice data Amazon has collected on her has received millions of views and been liked hundreds of thousands of times.“Finally, you can grant permissions for the Alexa app to use certain data, such as your mobile device’s geolocation, to provide relevant results (e.g., weather, traffic, restaurant recommendations), and you can manage these permissions in the app.”?In order to request user data from Amazon, customers need to go to a Request My Data page where they can select the information they want to receive and submit a request for Amazon.Users can also delete their Alexa voice recordings automatically through the Alexa app on Android and iOS by going to ‘More’, then ‘Settings’, then ‘Alexa Privacy’, then ‘Manage Your Alexa Data’, then ‘Automatically delete recordings’ and selecting ‘Off’ to enable the setting?