Making Sure Your Amazon Echo Doesn’t Send Secret Recordings

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNN Money) – It was Alexa’s equivalent of a pocket dial. A woman in Oregon claimed that her Amazon Echo smart speaker secretly recorded a private conversation, and then sent the audio file to an acquaintance. She told her story to a local news outlet and it spread, stoking fears about ‘always listening’ devices invading privacy.
Amazon confirmed the incident and claimed that it was caused by an extremely rare series of events. The Echo misheard four d