CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its Alexa smart home devices. Today, it goes into effect. Here's what it means.

According to well-informed TV tech writer Janko Roettgers, Amazon is "courting major publishers" to bring their apps to the ...

This two-step change means Alexa users need to make a trade-off between privacy and functionality. Put simply, Amazon needs Echo devices to start making money. As US voice assistant expert Joseph ...

is making waves. Starting March 28, Alexa Echo users won't be able to block their devices from sending all voice recordings to Amazon for analysis. Just before this privacy change, more than 2,000 ...

Interestingly, as Amazon prepped with early access testing of Alexa+, it quietly made a worrying policy change. All your voice ... clean history with user privacy in the past.

Some users who previously avoided Alexa and Echo products due to privacy concerns say this change is reinforcing ... Even so, Amazon is now forcing Echo users to make a difficult choice: either ...

Alexa users also have a setting called “Don’t save recordings”, which, if enabled, deletes cloud recordings once they’re processed. In the second change, if the “Don’t save recordings” setting is ...

This two-step change means Alexa users need to make a trade-off between privacy and functionality. Put simply, Amazon needs Echo devices to start making money. As US voice assistant expert Joseph ...