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

Kathy Reid

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

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Abstract

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 personalisation features.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2025

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