For consumers, the decision to use these devices came with an implicit agreement to allow them to store this data, though it’s unclear how many smart speaker owners knew this to be the case. Alexa, and Apple’s Siri, keep recordings of anything said after the devices hear “wake” words that trigger them to action. Google’s assistant used to, although it recently decided not to keep recordings heard after its “Hey, Google” prompt. And if we’re nitpicking, which I’m always glad to do, it’d be nice to have an option to delete more than a day’s worth of data at a time — especially for the days one forgets.
