Buried within the this morning’s Echo Show 5 announcement are a few new safety features price highlighting. In addition to the inclusion of a built-in digicam shutter on the brand new sensible show are a pair of Echo instructions that allow customers delete voice recordings with an Alexa command.
“Alexa, delete what I said today” rolls out to Alexa customers beginning at the moment. “Alexa, delete what I just said” will arriving for U.S. within the coming weeks and different international locations the place the sensible assistant is accessible within the subsequent month. Amazon has provided the flexibility to delete recordings by way of the app for a while now, however this brings the performance to the entrance with a easy by way of command.
The course of works equally to deleting recordings by way of the app, beginning the deletion course of instantly.
While the corporate has lengthy contended that it doesn’t actively document conversations and protects data on encrypted servers, the always-on nature of Echo and related sensible dwelling merchandise have raised alarms amongst safety analysts and common customers alike.
The addition of the function is clearly a response to such pushback and an try for Amazon to let customers be a bit extra proactive about controlling how Amazon treats their conversations.
