Users of Google's voice-control features such as OK Google are probably aware that the company stores the voice recordings it receives when they talk to it. But it's still a bit of a shock to be confronted with a list of all the recordings the company has ever made of you. Google's voice and audio activity page isn't promoted heavily by the company, and visiting it gives a hint as to why. If you have (or have ever had) an Android phone with Google's "OK Google" voice-control system, the page should show a list of every command you have ever given it – replete with a little play button next to it. In my case, that means I found a recording of me asking for the nearest Waitrose in Glasgow (well, I am a Guardian journalist), lazily doing Fahrenheit conversions for cooking, trying to get driving directions to an Ikea, and just hurling random obscenities as a dumb, unfeeling computer (like I said, I am a Guardian journalist).