Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.
I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:
1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
@mookie I do not think this is legal here in EU. We have a very restrictive law (GDPR law) protecting personal data and privacy of our citizens. I think they cannot use your voice recording without your clear consent, here in EU.
@francina1909 @mookie It is legal because they use it to provide the service you got the echo for. They don't really have a choice, in fact, the echo just doesn't have the processing power needed. What wouldn't be legal is to do the processing outside of europe or keeping the recordings for other uses.
@francina1909 you are placing too much trust on a US company led by one of the Orange Menace oligarchs.
@mookie