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.

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

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

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

Amazon’s Alexa+ service is rolling out on March 28, and with it supposedly comes a more personalized, intuitive, and powerful ...

Essentially, everything said to your Amazon Echo from March 28 on will be sent to Amazon’s cloud, and having the setting to ...

The announcement came in the form of an email to customers and was first reported by ArsTechnica. The email explains that beginning March 28, customers will no longer have the option not to have their ...

While the voice recordings will be processed in the cloud, the email added that "they will be deleted" after Alexa had ...

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

Amazon is nixing one of the few privacy protections against accessing users' voice data, and you can blame AI for the change.