I saw this link in a thread in our News forum. This seems to be a more relevant place to discuss this though as most of those readers don't have an Alexa enabled device.

https://www.rt.com/usa/371984-amazon...nt-recordings/

According to this article Echos, and I assume Dots as well, are always listening to the sounds around them and are actually recording snippits of those sounds and storing them in the Amazon cloud. I'm not sure how accurate the article is what with journalism being a joke these days, but it does make sense that Amazon could do this. So it brings up the privacy issue of having your Echos, Dots, and many other smart home devices always on and always listening and often recording parts of what they are listening to or commands they are being asked to execute. I'm definitely not a tin-foil hat person, but I also never knew that always on Alexa devices were recording snippits of my life and storing them on a cloud. Good information to know I guess.