Amazon will stop on-device processing of any Alexa request. All of your private Alexa requests will run through Amazon's servers, raising concerns over user privacy.

Amazon on Wednesday unveiled the first major overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant since its introduction more than a decade ago, embedding it with generative artificial intelligence.

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

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 will start sending all of your recordings to the cloud to be processed there, rather on your Echo device itself.

An opt-in Alexa feature called "Do Not Send Voice Records" stops requests from being sent to the company. It will soon be removed.