Alexa is about to echo everything you say to her to Amazon. Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally, meaning their information wasn’t sent to Amazon’s servers — ...

Amazon is removing a key privacy feature from its Echo smart speakers that one tech expert has called ‘absolutely unforgivable’. Some devices can process voice requests locally – ‘on-device’ – so all ...

Amazon’s Echo-and-Alexa-enabled devices constantly monitor sounds in the area for the pre-programmed wake word unless its mute setting is toggled. Amazon claims that all sounds recorded prior to the ...