Amazon Echo users will lose their ability to withhold sending their stored voice recordings to the company’s cloud storage system. With the rollout of Alexa+, the company’s generative AI version of its personal assistant,

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of

Amazon is nixing one of the few privacy protections against accessing users' voice data, and you can blame AI for the change.