Amazon is making a privacy change to Echo — those who don’t agree may end up with a useless device. Story by Brooke Steinberg • 3mo. Alexa is about to echo everything you say to her to Amazon.

Amazon is making a privacy change to Echo — those who don’t agree may end up with a useless device By . Brooke Steinberg. Published March 17, 2025, 2:14 p.m. ET.

CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its Alexa smart home devices. Today, it goes into effect. Here's what it means.

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy.With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a ...

Amazon is planning to remove a privacy setting on its Echo devices later this month that will allow virtually all voice requests to go to the company's cloud.. The company's cloud-based voice ...

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 ...

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.

Amazon is removing a key privacy feature from its Echo smart speakers — and Alexa+ is to blame. On March 28, Amazon will remove the ability to have Alexa process your voice requests locally, and ...

Prior to the change, the Do Not Send Voice Recordings setting was only available to U.S.-based users with an Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10, or Echo Show 15 set to English.

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.

Amazon is discontinuing a privacy-focused feature that allowed select Echo devices to process voice requests locally, meaning all voice recordings will now be sent to the cloud before being deleted.