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/
Seems to me, and I’m happy to be corrected, that it has to be always listening so it can respond to its wake word which would mean at the very least, it hears everything. What it does with everything is the question, then.