Amazon Echo users are set to lose the option to store and process their Alexa requests locally, meaning all of their voice ...

The small percentage of affected users will be automatically opted into the remaining "Don’t save recordings" option.

Amazon Echo devices will stop supporting local processing of voice requests starting March 28, 2025. In a few days, all ...

A change in the way Amazon and Alexa processes your personal communication data could convince privacy-wary users to give up ...

Amazon is getting rid of a privacy setting that will allow all recordings to be sent to the Amazon cloud and there's nothing ...

While Amazon says the change is necessary to enable advanced features like voice ID and conversational AI, privacy experts ...

Its not just in your home, anywhere that has an Alexa could record your voice, match it to you with AI, and index all of your ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Jennifer Tuohy of The Verge about changes to Amazon's smart speakers. Users will no longer be able to opt not to have their voice recordings sent to the cloud.

Amazon isn’t the only voice ... do that. Not yet. The reason: The existing Alexa devices you might have in your home aren’t built for it. That probably will change with new Amazon Echo ...

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Amazon is ending the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option that kept audio from being sent to Amazon’s cloud and had it ...