How to Prevent Amazon From Checking Your Alexa Convos
After a Guardian article revealed that Apple is using contractors to review some of its Siri recordings this week, Apple has decided to temporarily suspend the program. Google followed suit with its virtual assistant, and now Amazon has done the same for Alexa – except instead of opting out of human verification, it just added the ability to explicitly opt out.
Previously, you could set Alexa permissions so that your recordings weren’t used to develop new device features . While this step also technically excluded your entries for manual review, it was never written into the settings.
You can now opt out by going to Settings, then Alexa Privacy and then Manage How Your Data Improves Alexa.
If you want to log out, you’ll want to turn off things that say, “If this setting is enabled, your voice recordings can be used to develop new features and manually checked to help improve our services. Only a very small proportion of voice recordings are manually checked. “
However, if you do not want your entries to be manually viewed, make sure you have this option disabled.