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Mods: The title should likely be changed back to the original ("Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files"). The story here isn't that Echo stores recordings (they tell you they do, you can even listen to them) and it wasn't done "via GDPR" since that's a law, not a method of communication or platform.
Since it seems like quite a lot of people are surprised that Amazon stores these recordings... PSA: you can go into the Alexa app and look at your Echo history and even listen to recordings of each interaction.
Google is the same - see your recordings here: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa I'm not sure if it's codified in law, but big tech companies are moving towards 'if we store non-anonymized user data, it must be possible for the user to log in and see it themselves'. I think they do that so they can argue that storing and playing back the audio is a feature of the product, rather than something anc…
Amazon also has people listen to your voice recordings so they can manually label the outcome for future training data.
Everyone does this, training data needs labels.
Since it seems like quite a lot of people are surprised that Amazon stores these recordings... PSA: you can go into the Alexa app and look at your Echo history and even listen to recordings of each interaction.
Google is the same - see your recordings here: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa I'm not sure if it's codified in law, but big tech companies are moving towards 'if we store non-anonymized user data, it must be possible for the user to log in and see it themselves'. I think they do that so they can argue that storing and playing back the audio is a feature of the product, rather than something anc…