Actually, if you go into the app, it shows you what it has heard and wheat
it thought it heard. You can listen to all the recordings or delete them.
Talking to people at Apple and Google there are some phrases and words that
are consistently misinterpreted and so the recordings are listened to and
new rules applied.
Has anyone ever read the privacy policy? I did and went in with my eyes
open, and can say that from what I can tell no personal information has been
shared that should not have been by any of the home assistant staff.
The worry for most is more of one of hacking into the system in some way by
an outside party. Will some governments insist on this back door? That would
be worrying but until it happens we will not know if existing wire tap rules
are sufficient.
It is actually far easier to monitor the microphone of a speaker phone
than it is a home assistant. Also the button on the Alexa at least is an
internal hardware driven switch, so without access to the unit itself it
cannot be patched by software externally.
Brian

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On Saturday, 17 August 2019 07:33:54 UTC+1, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
so real amazon staff HAVE been listening to you through your alexa
thingy....tee hee


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYOOqB-Ufkc

nice chebs

They have NOT been listening through my Alexa.

Ain't got one, never had one, and won't be getting one.

They, being anyone in a position to try, might manage to use the microphone
in my PC or phone, but not with my knowledge.

I absolutely detest trying to talk to machines. Automatic voice systems on
phones are hideous. It just isn't how my brain works. Unless I prepare what
I have to say, I usually stutter it out and get sent to the wrong place, or
(hopefully) to a human because the system got confused.