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We all love the convenience of voice search. Tapping a microphone to ask Google Gemini or Amazon Alexa a quick question is much faster than typing it out. But in this installment of our privacy series, we need to talk about what you are actually trading for that convenience.
When you use voice search, your phone doesn’t just answer your question and forget about it. That audio is transcribed, and the data is stored on a server. In many cases, it is not just the question being saved—it is the audio of your actual voice, including whatever was happening in the background before you even finished your thought.
I recently looked into my own data to see exactly what Google keeps, and the results were eye-opening.
