Starting Friday, everything you say to any Amazon Echo device will be sent to their cloud as they begin rolling out their "Alexa+" service. Customers with their Echo device set to “Don’t save recordings” will lose certain functionality, according to @arstechnica.com:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/