CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its Alexa smart home devices. Today ...

Amazon Echo devices changed its privacy settings today, but our consumer research shows home assistant users are concerned ...

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

Amazon will end a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from ...

In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa ...

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

all voice commands given to an Echo device will be routed through Amazon's cloud servers. Users will no longer be able to keep their data offline, which raises data privacy issues. Although Amazon ...

Amazon’s troubled history with privacy concerns The email sent to Echo users stressed voice recordings will be encrypted while in transit, and that the Amazon cloud was “designed with layers ...

Amazon has announced that ... The shift has raised significant privacy concerns among users and experts alike. Previously, certain Echo models offered a“Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting ...

Amazon Echo devices will stop supporting local processing of voice requests starting March 28, 2025.