"That article prompted me to see if Google had any audio recordings of me. As someone who generally shrugs at online privacy concerns, what I found made me pause. I found nearly 7,000 entries for Assistant alone going all the way back to December 2017. That itself still didn't bother me. All right, maybe someone accesses that history and sees the hundreds of timers I set with Assistant over the past eight years or the pile of random queries."
"What bothered me is that some of my voice interactions were stored, along with a link to play those recordings back. Seeing all of my interactions didn't seem that bad, but being able to play back recording after recording was unsettling. I couldn't pinpoint why some interactions were recorded and some weren't. I found recordings from my phone, from Android audio, and even from my TV that has Google TV as its OS."
Google can retain voice recordings tied to accounts across Assistant, Maps, and Search. Nearly 7,000 Assistant entries dating to December 2017 included playable audio clips. Some interactions were stored with playback links, allowing repeated listening to voice interactions. Recordings were present from phones, Android audio, and TVs running Google TV. Accidental activations appeared in logs but did not always contain recorded audio. The presence of stored, playable voice clips raises privacy concerns and suggests reviewing and deleting stored audio when desired.
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