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Amazon, Echo and voice recordings

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

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 and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud.

TechCrunch on MSN · 19h

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday,

Washington Times · 21h

Recordings of requests to Alexa will soon go to Amazon cloud

All voice recordings of commands or queries given to Amazon voice assistant Alexa on the company’s Echo devices will go to the Amazon cloud starting March 28.

AppleInsider · 22h

Amazon to kill Echo's local voice processing feature in favor of Voice ID

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.

You can no longer stop Alexa from sending voice recordings to Amazon

Some Echo devices have a feature that allows you to block voice recordings from being sent to the cloud, but Amazon is ...

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Sequim woman loses $125K in elaborate Amazon scam; Ukrainian suspect arrested

A 71-year-old Sequim resident fell victim to a sophisticated scam, losing $125,000 after being deceived by people posing as ...

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Four places you should never put your Amazon Alexa device – and the first could result in a bank-raiding attack

AMAZON'S Alexa devices are dotted around millions of homes worldwide. But many folks could be keeping their Amazon Echo and Dot gadgets in risky positions. Experts say you should keep your ...

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