[jt196]

I'm a bit confused here about the reaction. My understanding is that Amazon are turning off local processing of voice commands on three of their devices.

According to Verge [1], this was only available on 3 devices: Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15 – and only for customers in the U.S. with devices set to English.

So unless you have any of these devices, and are in the US, with English as the main language, ignore the news. This is not going to affect you. If you do, then your device commands NOT everything you say within reach of the Echo device will be processed remotely.

I'm happy to be corrected here, but this looks like it's no news dressed as Nasty-Tech-Oligarchs-Doing-More-Nasty-Things news.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/630049/amazon-echo-discontinue...