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Amazon on Thursday, 4 July, admitted that it doesn’t always delete the stored data that it has obtained through voice interactions with the company’s artificial assistant Alexa, even after the user wipes out audio files from their account.
The company admitted to it in its letter to Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), dated 28 June. The letter, according to The Verge, sheds more light on the company’s privacy practices with regards to its assistant.
In its letter, Amazon confirmed some of these allegations, saying that it does, in fact retain users’ voice recordings and transcripts until the customer chooses to delete them, The Verge reports.
“Ongoing effort to ensure those transcripts do not remain in any of Alexa’s other storage systems,” Amazon’s vice president of public policy was quoted by The Verge as saying.
(With inputs from The Verge)
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