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millstone on May 24, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Ca...

Ask the people whose Alexa and Google searches was used as evidence against them in court whether privacy is just a "marketing ruse for chumps."

lern_too_spel on May 24, 2018 [–]

The correct way to handle this is to leave the option of retaining history up to the user. Most users want to look up what they have asked before. https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2016/06/01/google-home-in...

Apple keeps that history tied to a unique user identifier for six months but doesn't let the user see it.

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