Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. On Amazon Echo, when you press the microphone button, the external ring glows red (Lord of the Rings metaphor?) Tweet This: If you've read the news that Amazon has thousands of employees listening to your Alexa voice commands, rest easy - here are 3 privacy options. On the Echo, your household and your contacts may be able to “Drop In” and start a conversation, like a phone call, via two Echo devices. Indeed, we have expectations that the big companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple are not going to betray our trust.

Source: Forbes April 20, 2019 00:22 UTC