Amazon Disables Alexa Privacy Features

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Alexa Privacy

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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.

Alexa devices will send all audio recordings to the cloud for processing.

The move is part of a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" Amazon says it has sold more than 500 million Alexa devices, but lost more than US$25 billion on the project.

It's also not very user-friendly, being aimed more at technical tinkerers. Users may face a trade-off between privacy and functionality, both within Alexa itself and when considering alternatives. They may also find themselves grappling with their own place in the increasingly inescapable systems of platform capitalism. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Provided by The ConversationThis story was originally published on Tech Xplore . Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates..

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