Amazon Will Listen to All Your Voice Recordings If You Use Alexa+

Amazon’s AI-enhanced Alexa assistant is going to need all your voice recordings, and there’s nothing you can do about it. An email sent to Alexa users notes the online retail giant is ending one of its few privacy provisions about recorded voice data in the lead up to Alexa+. The only way to make sure Amazon doesn’t get a hold of any of your vocals may be to quit using Alexa entirely. Gizmodo reached out to Amazon for confirmation, though we did not immediately hear back. You can find the full email on Reddit (as first reported by Ars Technica), which plainly states the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting on Alexa is being discontinued on March 28. Anybody who has the setting enabled will have it automatically revoked, and Amazon will then be able to process your voice recordings. Amazon claims it will delete the recordings once it’s done processing your request. “As we continue to expand Alexa’s capabilities with generative AI features that rely on the processing power of Amazon’ ... Read full article.