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Amazon ends privacy feature that let Echo users opt out of sending recordings to company

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud. Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option that kept audio from being sent to Amazon’s cloud and had it process locally on the device instead.

USA TODAY on MSN · 2d

Amazon is removing an Echo privacy setting that keeps Alexa recordings from the company

An opt-in Alexa feature called "Do Not Send Voice Records" stops requests from being sent to the company. It will soon be removed.

New York Post on MSN · 3d

Amazon is making a privacy change to Echo — those who don’t agree may end up with a useless device

Essentially, everything said to your Amazon Echo from March 28 on will be sent to Amazon’s cloud, and having the setting to make Amazon delete recordings will lessen the functionality of features on the device that were available by default when purchased.

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Amazon Alexa users issued urgent warning ahead of 'unforgivable' privacy change

Amazon says that less than 0.03% of Echo owners use the ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ feature. Amazon announced last month ...

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Amazon’s Echo is ending its ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ feature, starting March 28

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those ...

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Your Amazon Echo is losing the ability to process Alexa commands on-device

Amazon is removing Alexa’s on-device processing capabilities in preparation for its generative AI upgrade. The company ...

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