The Google Assistant voice assistant will no longer record your conversations if you don't want to

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Both Google Assistant and Alexa have become the main market assistants. More and more solutions integrate this system to make our lives much easier. And, it seems that Google's voice assistant wants to be less invasive with our privacy.

The problem is that, as the Mountain View-based company itself recently recognized, its voice assistant Google Assistant has a large number of conversations. The problem is that, the great G reported that it has a team of language experts who are responsible for listening and transcribing different voice conversations that your assistant has recorded.

According to the company, the objective of this action has to do with the improvement when the Google Assistant voice assistant understands certain languages better. In addition, he said that only 0.2 percent of the recorded audio fragments are the ones that are heard. But, of course, privacy is an increasingly serious issue, and the Internet was thrown at them.

Now the Google Assistant voice assistant will ask you for permissions to record conversations

While it is true that none of the recordings stored by the Google Assistant voice assistant is associated with user accounts, it remains a serious privacy issue. More having recorded conversations without having expressly activated the assistant.

For this reason, there is a change in the privacy policies of the Google Assistant voice assistant that will allow us to make everything easier. For starters, human listening is over unless we give permission. Or what is the same: we have to authorize this function from Google Assistant settings.

Have you decided to give Google permissions to record your conversations? Well, you know that you listen to them now will be more private than ever. The same goes for recordings by default. From now on we must authorize the recording of them so that the American giant can save them. Before it was just the opposite.

To say that all these changes will be applied immediately, so it is excellent news for users. In this way, we will see how our privacy is a bit more covered. And it is an extra reason to value the purchase of a smart speaker, more taking into account the possibilities offered by Google Home.