On March 28, some 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 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.

Amazon has announced that it will axe a setting that lets Echo device users store all their Alexa voice recordings locally.