Amazon Echo Will Send All Voice Recordings to Cloud Starting March 28
Amazon has announced a significant change to how its Amazon Echo smart speakers and displays process voice recordings. Starting March 28, all Alexa voice requests will be sent to Amazon’s cloud, eliminating the option for local processing. This decision, which Amazon attributes to the expansion of generative AI features, has sparked fresh concerns about user privacy, data security, and regulatory compliance. For years, Amazon offered users an option called “Do Not Send Voice Recordings”, which prevented their Echo devices from transmitting voice data to the cloud. However, in an email sent to affected users, the company confirmed that this privacy-enhancing … Read more
