I’m sure they have covered themselves legally IF it records without using using the wakeup words- I’ll bet there is some fine print somewhere stating that
But Amazon has always claimed that Alexa only starts recording when the command, ‘Alexa’ is spoken.
How then, to explain recent reports from Danielle, from Portland, Oregon that a private conversation between her and her husband was recorded and mysteriously ended up in the inbox of her husband’s colleague?
https://www.techworld.com/security/does-amazon-alexa-listen-to-my-conversations-3661967/