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Amazon removes privacy option, all Alexa recordings will now go to the cloud | You can blame Alexa+
An email that Amazon sent to customers confirms that the Do Not Send Voice Recordings feature they enabled on supported Echo devices will soon no longer be...
That's the date when supported devices will lose the option to store and process Alexa requests locally, ensuring that all voice recordings are sent to the cloud. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that the company employed thousands of contractors and full-time workers around the world, "from Boston to Costa Rica, India and Romania," to listen to voice recordings captured by Echo devices. More recently, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties for failing to disclose that it stored recordings of children's interactions with Alexa indefinitely.
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