Alexa Voice Recordings Being Sent To Amazon

From March 28, a change to a long-standing Amazon Echo privacy feature will mean that every Alexa request will be transmitted to Amazon’s cloud by default, rather than being processed locally on the device.

What’s Changing?

For years, Amazon Echo users had the option to keep some of their voice interactions with Alexa private. For example, select Echo devices, including the Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15, offered a setting called “Do Not Send Voice Recordings.” This allowed Alexa to process certain requests locally on the device, meaning users’ voices never left their homes. However, this is about to change.