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Amazon ends little-used privacy feature that let Echo users opt out of sending recordings to company


Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud.

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud. Those who’d been using the “Do Not Send” feature as of March 28 will automatically be opted into the “Don’t save recordings” option, Amazon said. “The Alexa experience is designed to protect our customers’ privacy and keep their data secure, and that’s not changing.

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