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Amazon’s Echo smart speakers will no longer allow users to opt out of having voice commands processed in the cloud, raising privacy concerns.

Amazon is ending its ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ feature, impacting a small number of Echo users. This move aligns with the company’s expansion of AI-powered features that rely on cloud processing.

Amazon is phasing out a privacy feature on select Echo devices that allowed users to process voice commands locally. The change arrives as Amazon integrates cloud-based AI enhancements for Alexa.

Meta may introduce a subscription option for UK Facebook users following a legal settlement related to personalized advertising practices and after agreeing to stop targeting a campaigner with ads based on her personal data.

Google is integrating personalization into its Gemini AI, allowing it to tailor responses based on your search history to provide more contextually relevant answers.

As wearable technology becomes more ingrained in daily life, it presents new legal questions regarding privacy, security concerns, and constitutional rights in criminal investigations.

This article examines the potential for generative AI and large language models to detect and report on “thought crimes” based on user dialogue, exploring the ethical implications, technological capabilities, and societal impact of such a scenario. It highlights potential downsides, including false positives and the chilling effect on free speech.

Amazon is discontinuing the ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ feature for some Echo devices, which processed voice commands locally instead of sending them to the cloud.

Amazon has lost its legal battle against a record fine imposed by Luxembourg’s privacy regulator for GDPR violations.

Amazon is removing a privacy setting that allowed some Echo users to process voice commands locally, citing cloud-based AI advancements.