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 ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands ...

All Echo Show smart displays can be used as a digital photo frame when you aren’t using them. The feature is well-suited to ...

Amazon will soon disable a privacy-focused feature available on three of its newer Echoes that allows commands to those smart ...

On March 28, ahead of its Alexa+ rollout, Amazon will get rid of the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting on Echo devices ...

If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all ...

Amazon is removing a key privacy feature from its Echo smart speakers that one tech expert has called ‘absolutely ...

Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. 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 ...

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of certain Alexa features like wake word ...

Amazon is planning to remove a privacy setting on its Echo devices later this month that ... wrote that the end of the feature is meant to "help their AI development, which seems to really be ...

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away ...

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