You thought your little Alexa devices were a privacy nightmare before? Well, the situation has only gotten grimmer. As part of its rollout of the "Alexa+" generative AI update — a phrase already weighted with dystopic portents — Amazon is changing it so that none of the requests you make to the tiny-speaker-cum-virtual assistants can be stored and processed locally, Ars Technica reports. Now, all of that must be done on the Cloud™. And that means going forward everything you tell Alexa will be stored — forever — in Amazon's servers.  Once, users had the option to opt out of […]

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