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Originally Posted by j.p.s
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Not necessarily, the actual claim they are reporting on, if true at all, could be audio that very well may have been triggered by a wake word. They don't say. If so, it would count as an interaction, even if it may have been accidental. And in any case, it doesn't count as "proof." It's just someone reporting someone else's claim.
There is a quote in there from a guy who says there's "lots of evidence" that some devices ("the broader market") record without a wake word being spoken, but no specifics are given, and he's not seemingly talking about Alexa, or the audio in the main claim. For all I know, the juxtaposition of that quote with the actual claim of the article may just be intentionally sowing FUD.
While it's a possibility, I tend to think, given the popularity of Alexa, and the number of hacktivists who can use tools like Wireshark, that if Alexa was sending home audio when she wasn't supposed to, it would be well publicized by now.