mo4ch:>Amazon admits it keeps some Alexa recordings even when users delete them | Mo4ch News

Amazon has admitted some recordings made by its constantly-eavesdropping AI personal assistant Alexa are never really gone from the company's servers, even if the user manually deletes them. Third parties get to keep them, too.Not only are transcripts and voice logs stored on Amazon servers indefinitely, but even when a user explicitly deletes a particular recording, they can only be certain the files are removed from the company's "primary storage systems," Amazon admitted last week in a letter to Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) after he wrote to the company with questions about its data handling and privacy practices.Also on rt.comAmazon’s kid-friendly Echo Dot is ‘blatant violation’ of child privacy laws, investigation finds"We have an ongoing effort to ensure those transcripts do not remain in any of Alexa's other storage systems" after a user deletes a recording and Amazon removes it from their primary storage systems, the company's VP of Publ…