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Re:Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely by cremp on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:36AM (#20343729)
> kept these logs in backups

Is that unreasonable?

I mean, I cannot possibly expect myself to go through my backups and delete a folder from everything, down to the multi-year incremental.

Once you start tampering with a backup, it stops being a backup.

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Re:Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely by skybrian on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:41AM (#20344666)
This can be done by encrypting each backed-up item and forgetting the key for deleted items that shouldn't be restorable from backup. You still need to decide how long the keys should be kept, though.
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Re:Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:03AM (#20343923)
Well then "delete past recordings here" is probably not true.
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