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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why one review beats a vague worry
Assistant histories are usually modest but not empty: accidental triggers, children's questions, visitors' voices, and the ordinary household noise that a device with a microphone picks up. Reviewing yours takes minutes and replaces an assumption with a fact.
The settings that matter are concrete: whether recordings are stored at all, whether they are used to improve the service, who else in a household can listen, and whether voice matching is on. Each one has a simple toggle, and the decision is yours to make once.
The protocol
- Open the assistant's privacy settings and find its recording history. Listen to a few entries, then delete the ones you do not want kept.
- Turn off saving recordings if the setting exists, and turn off any option that lets your voice data improve the service unless you actively want that.
- Check who has access: family accounts, shared households, and any linked app. Remove anyone who should not be able to review recordings.
- Decide on voice matching or recognition deliberately — it makes one person's requests more accurate and stores a voice profile for that purpose.
- Write one household rule and put it where the device lives, for example: no reading account numbers or medical details aloud near the device.
What the tool does
Walk a device audit: what to look for in the assistant's history, which settings to decide on, and the household rule to write at the end. It runs in this browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Limit first: This is a settings-review aid, not a security audit and not legal advice. It cannot see your account, and menus differ between devices and versions.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
If someone in the household is uncomfortable with the device, a five-minute conversation about the rule matters more than any setting. If you find recordings you believe were captured unlawfully in a private space, a consumer-protection agency in your state can advise on next steps.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. The audit is against the assistant's own settings screens — the source of truth the reader can open — so a model's summary would be strictly less accurate. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is data-privacy-exposure; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.