Echo devices
You can manage privacy settings in the Alexa App (Settings > Alexa Privacy), online amazon.com/alexaprivacysettings, or on an Echo Show device (Settings > Privacy & Permissions > Alexa Privacy).
- Review Voice History lets you review and delete voice recordings from interactions with Alexa.
- Choose How Long To Save Recordings lets you control how long Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions.
- Smart Home Device History lets you view the last 30 days of interactions with smart home devices. To retrieve data older than 30 days, go to Manage Your Alexa Data and request Email History. To control how long this data is stored, go to Manage Your Alexa Data.
- Review History of Detected Sounds lets you review recordings of sounds, like smoke alarms, that Alexa is configured to detect.
- Manage Your Alexa Data lets you control how long various types of data, including audio recordings, are stored.
- "Use voice recordings" and "Use messages to improve transcriptions" in Manage Your Alexa Data control whether voice recordings are used to train Alexa's machine-learning models, which may include human reviewers listening to the recordings.
- Manage Skill Permissions lets you control what information is shared with third-party "skills."