Is Google saving your voice recordings? How to check, delete, and opt out - fast

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Google may have your voice saved without your knowledge.
• The recordings come from Assistant, Maps, and Search.
• It's probably a good idea to delete these recordings.

Google might have recordings of your voice that you don't know about. Fortunately, there's something you can do about it.

As someone who has an email address that's almost 30 years old (my Hotmail I signed up for in 1998) and account after account that's had credentials leaked, I figure I've had a digital footprint long enough that I've long since given up any hope of true online privacy.

I scroll right past those "Your personal info found on Google Search" emails I used to follow through on (the takedown process is surprisingly effective, by the way ...