The "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" option that Amazon is putting to rest only worked in the United States, and only on three products—the 4th generation Echo Dot, the Echo Show 10, and the Echo ...

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud.

Starting on March 28, Amazon will no longer offer the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” feature on Echo devices, moving all of your voice recordings to its cloud server, whether you like it or not.

Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option that kept audio from being sent to Amazon’s cloud and had it process locally on the device instead.

People still have the option to prevent Alexa from saving voice recordings. Those who’d been using the “Do Not Send” feature as of March 28 will automatically be opted into the “Don’t ...