Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Amazon is getting rid of the option for Echo devices to process Alexa voice requests locally Until now, owners of certain models could choose not to send voice recordings to the cloud.

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

Amazon Echo users lose local voice processing as all requests shift to the cloud after March 28. This did not sit right for users due to privacy concerns.

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