Amazon forced to respond to Echo privacy concerns after Alexa records intimate conversation

Amazon has been forced to issue a statement explaining a malfunction that caused Alexa to record a customer's private conversation and send it to a contact. 
A woman in Portland, identified only as Danielle, told KIRO 7, a Washington state TV station, that her Echo had recorded a conversation between herself and her husband and shared it with one of the latter's employees in Seattle. 
Raising questions about whether the Echo was tuned to always listen in to customers, Danielle sai