Amazon will get rid of a setting on Echo devices that let people store voice recordings locally rather than on Amazon’s cloud ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Alexa is about to echo everything you say to her to Amazon. Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option to process requests locally, meaning their information wasn’t sent to Amazon’s ...

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 disabling an option that allows your Alexa voice conversations to be processed locally instead of in the cloud.