I get the technical reason for (at least temporarily) archiving these. Voice recognition is a machine learning problem and it only gets better when humans help “train” it (i.e., listen to recordings the machine didn’t get right and try to correct manually.)
But the fact that they tie it to your user ID is unacceptable. And showing me that in the name of “transparency” is nice, but doesn’t forgive the fact that they’re keeping data that way. Now a data breach means all that can be traced back to you with some work. They’re making it too easy for, at the extremes, the NSA or other government activity or determined hackers.
This is just one more example of how Google doesn’t take user privacy seriously. Their attitude remains- “This is your cost of doing business with us. We’ll start showing you just how deep the rabbit hole goes, but we’re not changing how we do things."
That cost is too high for me. Apple has already made clear that they randomize their data and delete it after 2 years. And I’m happily sticking with DuckDuckGo.com (which keeps getting better and has replaced Google for me so well I don’t even notice).
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