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Originally Posted by John F
That is dilemma.
Is everything an Echo hears sent up to Amazon, or only the things that begin with "Alexa, ".
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That's the main reason I would never have a smart speaker or anything of the like. Could you imagine if someone had said to big corporations 50 years go 'in the future you can have a spy in many households listening to everything they say', they would have been salivating at the prospect.
Both my nephews have one, but after talking to my oldest nephew, introducing him to Linux (haven't managed to convert him over yet), talking about privacy, data collection etc, I've noticed he's switched off his Alexa and stuck it in his wardrobe - a small win
I always work on the assumption if big business has the ability to do something that benefits them, they will, so yes I bet it's listening all the time.