Jefferson Graham USA TODAY Published 8:43 AM EDT Sep 28, 2019 Alexa, will you stop recording and storing my queries? You won’t get a response from Alexa to that one, but we got the straight answer from the man who runs the devices division at Amazon. The company has no plans to stop that practice. Sure, senior vice-president Dave Limp this week announced new privacy controls that would let users opt in to automatically delete all recorded queries either every three or 18 months, but you can’t opt-out of the recording process. Every time you ask Alexa a question and awake it with the “Alexa” command, Amazon records the question and archives it, to help it become a better personal assistant. If that concerns you, you need to go into the Alexa app and change your settings. So why not just let people out of it altogether? We asked Limp that question this week while attending Amazon’s big 80-product reveal at its company headquarters in Seattle. “We don’t keep data for data’s sake,” he said. “We‘re very convicted that by keeping this data…it improves the service materially.” More: Amazon unveils its first-ever pair of smart glasses, the Echo Frames More:… Read full this story
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