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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today

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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.

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Amazon scraps Alexa privacy option for AI upgrade, raising concerns

Amazon on Friday discontinued a privacy feature for Alexa-enabled devices, requiring all voice interactions to be processed in its cloud starting this week. The company says the move is necessary to support its upcoming Alexa Plus AI upgrade, but digital rights advocates argue it limits consumer choice.The removed "do not send voice recordings" setting was previously available only on select U.S. devices including the Echo Dot 4th generation, Ec…

3 days ago·Beijing, China

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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today

Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.

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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will now be sent to Amazon

Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices. Starting today (March 28), Alexa devices will send all audio recordings to the cloud for processing, and choosing not to save these recordings will disable personalization features. How do voice assistants work? A voice assistant works by constantly lis…

4 days ago·Washington, United States

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Privacy Divide Widens: Spain, South Korea Concerned While U.S. Falls Behind, Statista Reports

According to a survey conducted by Statista’s Consumer Insights, people caring about their data privacy is something that varies from country to country. Recently, Amazon has announced that it is removing a privacy feature from its Echo home devices which previously allowed users to opt out of sending Alexa recordings to the cloud and they could process them locally instead. Even though this feature wasn't widely used, it still raises questions …

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Change the wake command?

Why aren't you showing any interest in letting users change the words of the wake command?Is it the one thing you are okay with Amazon being better than you at? Alexa can have the command changes? If you're voice recognition is that good, this should be an easy task. Below is the previous post:https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Speakers-and-Displays/Change-the-hey-google-wake-command/m-p/110390#M20242

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