The three technology giants - Apple, Amazon and Google - have come under tremendous pressure over the past few days and announced that they will stop recording and storing any conversations with their three personal digital assistants, respectively: Siri, Alexa, and Google's assistant, for 90 days from August 1, adjusting the digital settings and giving the user the right to refuse or approve the recording and transfer of his conversations.

This step represents the latest developments in the crisis of the violation of the personal digital assistance to the privacy of millions of users, which has become one of the hottest technology issues, especially after the three companies admit this to happen, and confirmed that the recording and storage of calls, is under strict controls, and a very small percentage of Conversations.

Listen and record

Recent pressures have resulted in the user having the right to block or grant digital aid, the right to record and copy conversations with or around the conversations, and to transfer them to their corporate servers, as well as the right to erase any recordings of previous conversations made on corporate servers. Any user exercising this right through recent amendments to the three aid settings, as follows:

Alexa Amazon

Open the “Alexa” application, click on the “Settings” menu, then “Privacy” then “Alexa”, then click on the command “Manage Alexa Data Optimization”, then turn off the key next to this command, which is intended for your approval or rejection to help improve services. Amazon. In this way, you can prevent Amazon from reviewing copies of messages you send with Alexa by turning off the toggle switch at the bottom of the screen, and if you want to review or delete any of Alexa's previous recordings. Return to the “Alexa Privacy” screen and then press and hold the voice record review key.

«Google Assistant»

Open the “Google Home” application, click “Account”, then go to the “More Settings” key under “Google Assistant”, then “Data in the Assistant” and then “Voice Activity”. the sound". You can also click the Manage Activity command, and then review and delete some or all of your audio recordings on Google Assistant servers.

Assistant «Siri»

If you want to see your recent conversations, you can enable Siri on your iPhone or iPad, then scroll down from the top of the screen, and it will show you your most recent conversation on your device, so you can see if There are no questionable recordings.

To perform the deletion, you will need to go to Settings, then General, keyboards, turn off Enable Dictation, go back and select Siri and Search, go to the toggle key, press Home, and deactivate Siri .

Once deactivated, you will receive a message asking if you want to turn off Siri.If you agree, this will remove all your data from Apple servers immediately, and delete the Siri record, whether you are running it on the iPhone or any other device. Another device like the iPad and Apple Watch.

Obviously, this method means that Siri will be turned off on your device, because Apple has not yet finished modifying the settings that make Siri work, but does not record, copy and transmit calls. So if you want to start using Siri again, you'll need to re-enable it, and repeat the previous steps as necessary, until new changes are introduced.

Resolve the situation

According to a report by techhive.com, modifications to software settings and decisions to suspend registrations for 90 days are only a kind of "painkiller" for this flaming crisis.

The report finds that the 90-day period, and changes to the settings "timeout" after which all parties, users, companies, organizations and official bodies will have to resolve the situation between the "full protection" by completely preventing the recording, copying and transfer of calls and then listen to them, or access a formula for «eavesdropping» Conditional to the acceptance of users, official bodies and privacy advocates, to allow companies to continue the development and improvement of products, so the issue is likely to witness more controversy and tug of war in the coming period.

Corporate positions

Amazon has confirmed that a new policy has come into force, allowing users to remove their recordings. Citizen Apple said its employees were instructed to stop listening to talks with Siri around the world.

Google said it would give the user the option to stop "storing your voice recordings on your account," with data automatically deleted after every three or 18 months.