All your Alexa recordings will go to the cloud soon, as Amazon sunsets Echo privacy

Amazon is curtailing a privacy-minded feature that will affect owners of certain Echo devices. In an email sent last Friday to a number of customers, Amazon revealed that as of March 28, it will remove an opt-in setting that prevented audio of your Alexa requests from being shared with the company. Available to users with certain Echo devices, this option processes your Alexa requests locally instead of sending their recordings to the cloud. Also: Echo Pop vs Echo Dot: Which Alexa speaker should you choose? Though this option sounds like it should have been available to all Alexa users, it was limited to those with the Echo Dot 4th generation, Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15 devices and only to people in the US with English set as their language. To enable this in the Alexa app, at least until March 28, select the supported Echo device and tap Settings. From there, turn on the switch for "Do Not Send Voice Recordings." With this option soon to be disabled, does that open up Alexa us ... Read full article.