Amazon Alexa Users Can Now Disable Human Review of Voice Recordings

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Alexa Users Can Now Disable Human Review of Voice Recordings

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has started offering Alexa users the option to disable human review of their voice recordings. The option is now available via the Alexa smartphone app and is enabled by default. So, if you don’t want

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employees or contractors listening to your Alexa voice history, you can disable it now. In a statement,

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said that the change went live on Friday.

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’s decision comes after Apple was caught in a privacy scandal over the company’s contractors listening to some really private stuff.

The option to disable the human review of Alexa voice recordings can be found in Settings > Alexa Privacy > Manage How Your Data Improves Alexa settings in the Alexa smartphone app. The Manage How Your Data Improves Alexa page offers two options – Help Improve

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Services and Develop New Features and Allow

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to use messages you send with Alexa to improve transcription accuracy. Both of these options are enabled by default. You need to disable these for stop possible human review of your Alexa voice recordings.

“We take customer privacy seriously and continuously review our practices and procedures,”

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The Guardian in a statement. “For Alexa, we already offer customers the ability to opt out of having their voice recordings used to help develop new Alexa features.”

“The voice recordings from customers who use this opt-out are also excluded from our supervised learning workflows that involve manual review of an extremely small sample of Alexa requests. We’ll also be updating information we provide to customers to make our practices more clear,”

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added.

Unlike Apple, which has temporarily suspended the human reviews to review the process,

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will continue to use human review process to improve Alexa.

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had also suspended human reviews for voice assistant recordings in Europe.

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