A new policy took effect on Aug 3 that allows customers, through an option in the settings menu of the Alexa smartphone app, to remove their recordings from a pool that could be analysed by Amazon employees and contract workers, a spokeswoman for the Seattle company said. — AP
Amazon.com Inc will let Alexa users opt out of human review of their voice recordings, a move that follows criticism that the programme violated customers’ privacy.
A new policy took effect on Aug 3 that allows customers, through an option in the settings menu of the Alexa smartphone app, to remove their recordings from a pool that could be analysed by Amazon employees and contract workers, a spokeswoman for the Seattle company said. It follows similar moves by Apple Inc and Google.
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