Amazon has revealed new ways to delete the personal recordings that it keeps of you, while launching a new version of its Echo Show. The new feature will allow users to simply ask Alexa and have it
The feature could be a response to increasing concern about what Amazon is doing with the recordings that it takes of people who own its Alexa devices. The company says it collects them to improve the performance of its voice assistant, but reports have drawn attention to the ways that some people could listen in to them.
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