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Your Amazon Echo will start reporting to Amazon on Mar. 28

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud.

TechCrunch · 23h

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 recordings (with the exception of

Mashable on MSN · 1d

Your Amazon Echo will start reporting to Amazon on March 28

In short, everything you say to your Echo devices after March 28 will be sent to Amazon’s cloud, and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it. If users continue to make Amazon delete recordings, they will also lose access to features their devices had by default when they were purchased.

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TechRadar on MSN · 4h

No, Amazon isn't changing how all Echos process your voice requests to satisfy Alexa+'s more powerful models

The specific feature Amazon is disabling, "Do Not Send Voice Recordings," never precluded your prompts from being handled in the Amazon cloud. The processing power that these few

Lifehacker on MSN · 6h

All Alexa Voice Requests Will Soon Go Through Amazon's Servers

Amazon will stop on-device processing of any Alexa request. All of your private Alexa requests will run through Amazon's servers, raising concerns over user privacy.

Android Authority · 1d

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 recently alerted users of this change in an email stating that the ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ feature will no longer be available starting March 28.

Amazon’s Controversial Change to Echo’s Privacy Settings Takes Effect Soon

Amazon is mandating cloud-based processing for Echo voice commands, removing local storage and disabling Alexa’s voice ID to ...

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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 ...

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Amazon Is Removing a Key Alexa Privacy Setting: Should You Worry?

Ahead of the Alexa Plus launch, Amazon is requiring owners to send it all of their voice data. Here's why that's a problem.

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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 ...

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What the Tech? Amazon Alexa voice recordings

If you have an Amazon Echo device, you know it responds to the wake word, "Alexa." But did you know it's always listening?

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Amazon Alexa privacy concerns | What the Tech?

If you use an Amazon Echo device, also known as "Alexa," it's always listening and now they will automatically send audio to its servers.

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We're still waiting on Echo device deals ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale

As we gear up for Amazon's Big Spring Sale, we're on the hunt for the best deals on Echo devices. However, as of the sale's kick-off we're not seeing any deals on Echos. That does ...

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Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month

Have an Alexa-enabled Echo device in the living room? Maybe don't spill your secrets to the voice assistant. Amazon stated in ...

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Your Amazon Echo will start reporting to Amazon on Mar. 28

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