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.

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

Ahead of the Alexa Plus launch, Amazon is requiring owners to send it all of their voice data. Here's why that's a problem.

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of

In short, everything you say to your Echo devices after March 28 will be sent to Amazon’s cloud, and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it. If users continue to make Amazon delete recordings, they will also lose access to features their devices had by default when they were purchased.

Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.