Amazon is planning to remove a key privacy feature from its Echo smart speakers and displays, and people aren’t happy. Starting on 28th March, Amazon will change how your voice commands are processed by Alexa and will send your recordings to the cloud for processing,

Amazon is removing the ability to process Alexa requests locally on your Echo smart speaker, but it only affects a handful of users.

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. 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.