Amazon is making a privacy change to Echo — those who don’t agree may end up with a useless device By . Brooke Steinberg. Published March 17, 2025, 2:14 p.m. ET.

Amazon is making a privacy change to Echo — those who don’t agree may end up with a useless device. Story by Brooke Steinberg ...

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.

You can make calls and leave voicemails to other Echo users, as well as "Drop In" to your own echo devices, either to voice ...

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 ends privacy feature that let Echo users opt out of sending recordings to company The feature only worked on three devices: the 4th generation Echo Dot, the Echo Show 10 and the Echo Show ...

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy.With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a ...

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 ...

Amazon smart speakers disable a privacy setting that allowed local storage of voice recordings NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Jennifer Tuohy of The Verge about changes to Amazon's smart speakers ...

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. Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending ...