Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally, meaning their information wasn't sent to Amazon's servers -- but that option is going away starting March 28.

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally, meaning their information wasn’t sent to Amazon’s servers — but that option is going away starting March 28.

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.

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 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 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 ...