Dhaka, March 20 -- Amazon is discontinuing a little-used privacy feature that allowed some Echo users to keep their voice recordings from being sent to the company's cloud.

Starting March 28, the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" option will no longer be available, Amazon informed affected users via email. The feature, which allowed voice commands to be processed locally on devices instead of Amazon's servers, was only available on three Echo models-the 4th generation Echo Dot, Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15-limited to U.S. users with English settings. Less than 0.03% of customers used it, Amazon said.

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