Aside from muting Echo’s microphone, you cannot stop Amazon from making recordings of your conversations with Alexa. An obvious place to begin: Alexa, stop recording us. What can you do to stop Alexa from recording? Apple says voice data is assigned a “random identifier and is not linked to individuals” — but exactly how anonymous can a recording of your voice be? You can tell Amazon to delete everything it has learned about your home, but you can’t look at it or stop Amazon from continuing to collect it.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2019 13:01 UTC