Amazon is removing the ability to process Alexa requests locally on your Echo smart speaker, but it only affects a handful of users.

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 will remove one of the key privacy-boosting features of its Alexa smart assistant platform later this month. An email sent to users announced that starting March 28, the operation of Echo ...

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

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.

But as Amazon celebrates the debut, privacy advocates are warning that Amazon Echo Look could potentially peer into users' most intimate moments at home.

And Amazon is announcing new privacy features for the web and for Alexa, as part of a larger effort to address the concerns of its customers.

For the Amazon Echo, the wake word is the assistant's name, Alexa. But in order to detect its name, the Echo has to be listening in at all times on some level.