03/19/2025

Amazon Alexa is Getting Creepier

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It’s a good time to revisit the terms of your relationship with Alexa.

If you own one of Amazon’s voice assistant gadgets, everything you say to Alexa is beamed to Amazon’s cloud and saved forever on the company’s computer systems. Amazon uses those Alexa voice recordings to answer your commands and train its artificial intelligence (AI).

Now, Amazon is removing a setting that gave some Alexa device owners a more privacy-preserving option. Few people used that setting, but the change is a reminder that Alexa is a data hog and likely growing more so.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.